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In 1928 and 1929, two men named Sterling T. Dunn and Van Skelton were shot and killed in the course of “lover's lane” robberies in Memphis, Tennessee. After a series of false leads and rather unlikely coincidences, the murders were finally solved after several months.
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Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 11, 1928.
“Identify Floater as Murdered Fireman.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 22, 1929.
“McCaslin 'Soldiered' While Family Mourned Him as Dead.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, May 13, 1929.
“Murder List Growing.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 26, 1929.
“Mystery Note Now Enters Dunn Slaying.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 10, 1928.
“Mystery Surrounds Murder on Parkway.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 7, 1928.
“Negroes' Confessions Clear Roadside Deaths.” Chattanooga Daily Times, October 12, 1929.
“Police Closing in on Murder Witness.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 8, 1928.
“Police to Renew Quiz of Skelton Suspect.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, October 11, 1929.
“Sheriff's Force Idle in Probe of Murder.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, February 5, 1929.
“Two Admit Slaying of Skelton and Dunn.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, October 12, 1929.
“Woman is Held in Murder of Fireman.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 23, 1929.
“Woman Named Hazel Still Evades Capture.” Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 9, 1928.
Maddox, Myrtle. “My Escape from the Ghost Grove Terror.” True Detective Mysteries, September, 1930.
The president of the post-WWII Japanese railway system dies under mysterious circumstances, and in the following weeks, two incidents of railway sabotage occur.
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“Added Violence Marks Japan Labor Crisis.” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 7, 1949.
Occupation of Japan - Wikipedia
Japan's Red Purge: Lessons from a Saga of Suppression of Free Speech and Thought | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (apjjf.org)
Red Purge - Wikipedia
FOCUS: Mysterious 1949 disaster draws attention again. - Free Online Library (thefreelibrary.com)
Shimoyama National Railways Governor's Memorial Monument (fc2.com)
70 yrs on, struggle for exoneration in Mitaka case continues (kyodonews.net)
Hosei University Ohara Institute of Crime Case [Japan Labor Yearbook Vol. 24 674] (archive.org)
These five stories comprise the homicide cases in L.A. Noire. These are the murders of former aviator Jeanne French (“The Red Lipstick Murder”), teetotaller Dorothy Montgomery (“The Golden Butterfly”), soon-to-be-divorcee Rosenda Mondragon (“The Silk Stocking Murder”), housewife Laura Trelstad (“The White Shoe Slaying”) and the homeless Evelyn Winters (“The Studio Secretary Murder”).
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“Another Woman Slain, Victim of Mutilation Killer.” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1947.
“Bus Driver's Story Clouds L.B. Murder.” Long Beach Independent, May 18, 1947.
“Cab Driver Believes He Saw Mrs. Trelstad.” Long Beach Independent, May 30, 1947.
“Church Friends of Slain Woman Checked as Baffled L.A. Policemen Open Probe.” Visalia Times-Delta, May 5, 1947.
“Clothes of L.A. Victim Found.” San Francisco Examiner, July 10, 1947.
“Clues Lacking at Montgomery Murder Inquest.” Los Angeles Times, May 8, 1947.
“Colorful Life of Jeanne French Ends in Death by Mystery Killer.” Los Angeles Times, July 16, 1961.
“Companion of Nurse During Supper Sought.” Los Angeles Daily News, February 12, 1947.
“Dark Man Who Had Late Date With Slain Woman Hunted.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 13, 1947.
“Fiend's Victim Called Good Wife and Mother.” Long Beach Press-Telegram, May 13, 1947.
“Horror Victim Last Seen With Sailor.” Los Angeles Daily News, May 13, 1947.
“Husband Held in L.A. Slaying.” Ventura County Star, February 11, 1947.
“Husband of Slain Woman Arrested.” Venice Evening Vanguard, July 1, 1948.
“Inquest Leaves Evelyn Winters Murder Mystery.” Valley Times, March 18, 1947.
“L.A. Man is Freed in Death of Wife.” Visalia Time-Delta, July 12, 1947.
“L.B. Woman Attacked, Slain.” San Pedro News-Pilot, May 12, 1947.
“Lead Sought to Killer of L.B. Mother.” Long Beach Independent, May 13, 1947.
“Lie Test Fails to Link Husband in Nurse Killing.” Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1947.
“Man in Jail Questioned in Housewife's Murder.” Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1947.
“Missing Mother Found Murdered; Battered Body Left in Vacant Lot.” Los Angeles Times, May 4, 1947.
“Montgomery Freed in Wife's Death.” Los Angeles Daily News, August 1, 1947.
“Montgomery Linked to Wife's Killing.” Los Angeles Daily News, July 25, 1947.
“Mother of Three Choked to Death; Body Flung in Signal Hill Oil Field.” Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1947.
“Murder of Wife Finally Charged to Montgomery.” Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1947.
“New French Murder Lead Uncovered.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 25, 1947.
“New Sex Murders Shock Los Angeles.” Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, March 12, 1947.
“Pawnshops May Answer Latest Dahlia Slaying.” Metropolitan Pasadena News, May 6, 1947.
“Police Eliminate Sail as Suspect in Sex Slaying.” Sacramento Bee, May 14, 1947.
“Police Question Husband in Brutal Slaying of Wife.” Minneapolis Morning Tribune, February 11, 1947.
“Police Seek Attempted Attacker As Suspect in French Murder.” Venice Evening Vanguard, February 26, 1947.
“Quiz Confessed Murderer on Other Slayings.” Wilmington Daily Press Journal, February 18, 1947.
“Reports on Molesters May Give Clue.” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1947.
“Robbery, Attack Suspect Located.” Venice Evening Vanguard, June 27, 1947.
“Sailor Cleared as Suspect in Murder.” Long Beach Independent, May 14, 1947.
“Screams in Montgomery Home Heard by Witness.” Los Angeles Times, May 21, 1947.
“Seek to Link Suspect With Lipstick Case.” Los Angeles Daily News, March 10, 1947.
“Sixth Victim in Murder Cycle Found Mutilated in Southland.” Santa Maria Daily Times, July 8, 1947.
“Slain Woman's Stripped Body Found in Gutter.” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1947.
“Slayer Known, Police Declare.” Wilmington Daily Press-Journal, May 16, 1947.
“Trio Questioned in Winters Case.” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 1947.
“Two Fiend Murders Stymie L.A. Police.” Valley Times. February 12, 1947.
“Two More Women Slain; One Beaten, One Strangled.” Los Angeles Times, March 12, 1947.
“Warrant Issued for Culver Gas Station Attendant.” Venice Evening Vanguard, May 10, 1947.
“Winters Murder Case Centers on Drinking Friend.” Los Angeles Times, March 13, 1947.
“Woman Slain in New L.A. Dahlia Murder.” Los Angeles Daily News, February 10, 1947.
“Woman Slain in New L.A. Murder.” Oakland Tribune, May 12, 1947.
1947project: Slain Woman's Stripped Body Found in Gutter (archive.org)
1947project: Mother of Three Choked to Death; Body Flung in Signal Hill Oil Field
These are three of the stories that inspired cases in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire. Here are the stories of overstressed engineer Eugene White ("The Driver's Seat"), the accidental death of Jay Dee Chitwood and his wife's drunken confession ("A Marriage Made in Heaven"), and the avoidable disaster of O'Connor Electroplating ("Nicholson Electroplating").
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“15 Identified Dead in Blast; One Missing.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947.
“Alleged Murder Victim Admits Burning House.” Hanford Morning Journal, August 5, 1947.
“Chemist Cited Blast Peril, Inquest Hears.” Salt Lake Tribune, March 12, 1947.
“Chitwood to Be Sentenced to Death.” Hope (Arkansas) Star, February 20, 1946.
“Dead Chemist's Premonition of L.A. Blast Told At Hearing.” Los Angeles Daily News, March 11, 1947.
“Driver Absolved in Pedestrian Death.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 15, 1944.
“Engineer Arrested in Arson.” Valley Times, August 4, 1947.
“Executive Feared Slaying Victim in St. Valentine's Day Car Mystery.” Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1947.
“It Mushroomed Like Atom Blast.” Los Angeles Daily News, February 21, 1947.
“Missing Businessman Confesses It Was Fake.” Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1947.
“Murdered One Mate Just to Scare Present One, Wife Says.” Los Angeles Daily News, January 22, 1947.
“Obituaries – White, Eugene Hamilton.” Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1995.
“Only Kidding, Woman Says of Confession.” Metropolitan Pasadena News, January 23, 1947.
“Pedestrian Death Inquest Set.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 11, 1944.
“Plant Cleared of Negligence in Faital Blast.” Wilmington Daily Press Journal, March 13, 1947.
“Police Discount Murder Story.” San Pedro News-Pilot, January 22, 1947.
“Prosecutor Seeks Blast Facts Prior to Inquest.” Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1947.
“Psychiatrist to Examine Woodland Hills Arsonist.” Topanga Journal, August 29, 1947.
“Reasons For Flight Told By Missing Angeleno.” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1947.
“Secret War Work Blast Cause Denied.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947.
“Some Compare Blast to Quake, A-Bombing.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947.
“Television Used at Blast Scene First for Coast.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1947.
“Tool Plant Executive's Arson Case Arraignment Set Aug. 25.” Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, August 9, 1947.
“Torrance Orders Sidewalk Built.” San Pedro News-Pilot, August 25, 1944.
“Traffic Death Turns Into Murder Mystery.” Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1947.
“Woman Admits Spouse Murder Two Years Ago.” Pomona Progress Bulletin, January 22, 1947.
“Woman Released After Confession Discounted.” Long Beach Independent, January 24, 1947.
“Woman's Murder Story Proves False.” San Pedro News-Pilot, January 24, 1947.
“Woodland Hills Arsonist Sane; Held For Trial.” Topanga Journal, September 5, 1947.
“Woodland Hills Man Charged With Arson.” Topanga Journal, August 8, 1947.
Newsreel footage of aftermath of O'Connor Electroplating: (230) Deadly explosion, 1947, O'Connor Electroplating Co. Los Angeles - YouTube
John Frankford was a notorious thief of pretty much anything that wasn't nailed down. His 30 year career in Pennsylvania and elsewhere is a series of crimes, arrests, and jailbreaks, punctuated with the occasional jail sentence that's actually served.
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Bodysnatching and the curious case of One-Eyed Joe - WHYY
Jack Sheppard - Wikipedia
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On December 12, 1911, a missed milk delivery led to the discovery of four dead bodies on a farm near Albany, New York. The possible murderer can't be found.
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“$1000 Reward For Murderer.” Rutland Daily Herald, December 16, 1911.
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“Another Morner Tragedy Reported.” Buffalo Enquirer, February 2, 1912.
“Arrest Man at Williamstown.” Boston Globe, December 18, 1911.
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“Bloodhounds Trail Slayer of Family.” New York Times, December 15, 1911.
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“Suspect Denies Bomb Threat in Extortion Case.” New York Daily News, July 2, 1933.
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In the summer of 1692 Gloucester, Massachusetts was under siege by a mysterious group of men even as the infamous witch trials occurred only a few miles away in Salem. The besiegers of Gloucester were never captured or even located, if they really existed at all...
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Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, unto the Year of our LORD, 1698. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1698.
Ebenezer Babson (1667-1696) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
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In the summer of 1692 Gloucester, Massachusetts was under siege by a mysterious group of men even as the infamous witch trials occurred only a few miles away in Salem. The besiegers of Gloucester were never captured or even located, if they really existed at all...
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Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, unto the Year of our LORD, 1698. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1698.
Ebenezer Babson (1667-1696) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree
Case files referencing Ebenezer Babson - New Salem - Pelican (virginia.edu)
For three years in the 1920s, the women of northwest Philadelphia were terrorized by a madman who entered homes and attacked or even killed whoever was within. Were these killings work of serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson?
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“Strangler Suspect Believed a Maniac Frightens 2 Women.” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 3, 1926.
“Strangler Suspect Is Held for Probe.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 4, 1926.
“Strangler Suspect Raving Maniac as Alibi is Confirmed.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 19, 1926.
“Strangler Thought Captured At Last in W. Philadelphia Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 14, 1925.
“Strangler Tries to Attack Widow.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 21, 1925.
“Strangler's Attack Baffled By Woman.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 3, 1926.
“Suspect Identified.” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 30, 1927.
“Third Philadelphia Woman Falls Victim of Strangler.” Hanover Evening Sun, November 11, 1925.
“Woman Slain By Strangler in Her Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1925.
“Woman Strangled As Her Baby Sleeps.” Harrisburg Telegraph, October 16, 1925.
“Woman Thwarts Attempted Attack.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1927.
“Women in Fear As Strangler Eludes Police.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 1925.
“Young Girl Seized By Phila. Strangler.” Camden Courier-Post, April 29, 1927.
“'Young Joe Wolcott' Dies of Rheumatism.” Salt Lake Tribune, December 27, 1933.
“Young Woman Found Strangled.” Indiana Gazette, Nov. 7, 1925.
For three years in the 1920s, the women of northwest Philadelphia were terrorized by a madman who entered homes and attacked or even killed whoever was within. Were these killings work of serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson?
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“2 More Women Are Attacked By Stranglers.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 1925.
“Boxer Suspect in Stranglings Held By Police.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 19, 1926.
“Dragnet Out For Strangler of Philadelphia Woman.” Scranton Times-Tribune, April 28, 1927.
“Fiend Suspect Tries to Enter W. Phila. Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 29, 1927.
“Girl's Bravery As Strangler Decoy Brings Capture.” Camden Morning Post, November 24, 1925.
“Man in Camden Seized At Bank as Strangler.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 15, 1925.
“New Attack Fans Strangler Terror.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 1925.
“Policeman Killed in Family Quarrel.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 19, 1957.
“Pugilist Goes Insane After Hard Grilling.” Camden Morning Post, December 20, 1926.
“Pugilist is Held By Phila. Police As Strangler.” Camden Morning Post, December 18, 1926.
“Rooming House Woman Strangled, Lodger Held.” Pittston Gazette, November 7, 1925.
“Strangler Clues Lead Searchers to Digger of Subway.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25, 1925.
“Strangler Suspect Believed a Maniac Frightens 2 Women.” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 3, 1926.
“Strangler Suspect Is Held for Probe.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 4, 1926.
“Strangler Suspect Raving Maniac as Alibi is Confirmed.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 19, 1926.
“Strangler Thought Captured At Last in W. Philadelphia Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 14, 1925.
“Strangler Tries to Attack Widow.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 21, 1925.
“Strangler's Attack Baffled By Woman.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 3, 1926.
“Suspect Identified.” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 30, 1927.
“Third Philadelphia Woman Falls Victim of Strangler.” Hanover Evening Sun, November 11, 1925.
“Woman Slain By Strangler in Her Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1925.
“Woman Strangled As Her Baby Sleeps.” Harrisburg Telegraph, October 16, 1925.
“Woman Thwarts Attempted Attack.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1927.
“Women in Fear As Strangler Eludes Police.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 12, 1925.
“Young Girl Seized By Phila. Strangler.” Camden Courier-Post, April 29, 1927.
“'Young Joe Wolcott' Dies of Rheumatism.” Salt Lake Tribune, December 27, 1933.
“Young Woman Found Strangled.” Indiana Gazette, Nov. 7, 1925.
In 1889, tensions between the Polish and Lithuanian congregants of St. Mary's in Plymouth, PA were fanned to a fever pitch by a violent troublemaker, a Polish man named Martin Wilkes.
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Plymouth Weekly Star, March 22, 1888.
Plymouth Weekly Star, April 26, 1888.
Plymouth Weekly Star, May 3, 1888.
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, April 5, 1886.
Wilkes-Barre Union Leader, November 22, 1889.
Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, March 5, 1890.
Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, May 8, 1890.
Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, March 25, 1892.
“A Plymouth Riot.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, October 27, 1889.
“And Yet There is No Peace.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, February 14, 1890.
“Another Riot.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 21, 1890.
“Burial Refused.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 28, 1890.
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“Martin Wilkes Leaves.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, March 27, 1892.
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“Martin Wilkes Wins One Case.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, April 30, 1890.
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“Plymouth Tidings.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, February 23, 1890.
“Polish Church Troubles.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, February 8, 1891.
“Rioting Poles.” Hazelton Plain Speaker, January 22, 1890.
“Sad Saloonmen.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, March 1, 1892.
“Sentenced Monday Morning.” Wilkes-Barre Union Leader, March 16, 1888.
“Sentences Imposed.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, March 13, 1888.
“Some Resolutions.” Wilkes Barre Sunday News, January 5, 1890.
“Sterner Measures Needed.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 24, 1890.
“Still Hold the Fort.” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 24, 1889.
“The Martin Wilkes Faction Making Trouble in the Church Again.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, January 27, 1891.
“The Plymouth Injunction Case.” Wilkes-Barre Record, January 28, 1890.
“The Poles Defiant.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, October 29, 1889.
“The Poles Surrender.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, October 23, 1889.
“The Priest Got a Gun.” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 21, 1890.
“The Priests Arrested.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, November 2, 1889.
“The Wilkes Faction Again.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, June 19, 1891.
“They Still Hold the Fort.” Wilkes-Barre Union Leader, October 25, 1889.
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“Wilkes on Trial.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, April 26, 1890.
“Wilkes Sentenced.” Wilkes-Barre News-Dealer, May 14, 1890.
“Wilkes Still Holds the Keys.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News, April 6, 1890.
“Would Not Allow Burial.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, January 19, 1890.
“Work of Polish Hyenas.” Wilkes-Barre Evening Leader, January 23, 1890.
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The annals of late Victorian era crime are usually dominated by one name, but another series of murders, ones lesser-known but more grisly, took place from 1886-1889 with some outlying cases that may or may not have been connected. Were these murders all the work of the same offender? In some cases, were they even murders at all?
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Hull Daily Mail, June 12, 1902.
“A London Mystery.” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, November 2, 1884.
“A Thames Mystery.” The Daily Telegraph, May 13, 1887.
―. East Kent Gazette, September 15, 1888.
“Another Murder and Mutilation in Whitechapel.” The Times, September 11, 1889.
“Another Thames Mystery.” Staffordshire Daily Sentinel, September 11, 1874.
“Atrocious Crime in London.” Birmingham Daily Mail, June 9, 1902.
“Discovery of Human Remains.” Pall Mall Gazette, October 24, 1884.
“Dreadful Discovery.” Christchurch Star (NZ), August 1, 1902.
“Further Discovery of Human Remains in London.” Pall Mall Gazette, October 30, 1884.
“Horrible Discovery at Rainham.” Essex Weekly Herald, May 23, 1887.
“Lambeth Mystery.” The Weekly Dispatch, June 15, 1902.
“Le Crime de Montrouge.” Le Radical (Paris), December 3, 1886.
“Le Mystère de Montrouge.” Le Figaro (Paris), August 5, 1886.
―. Le Figaro (Paris), August 7, 1886.
―. La Lanterne (Paris), August 7, 1886.
―. Le Figaro (Paris), August 20, 1886.
―. Le Figaro (Paris), August 22, 1886.
―. Le Figaro (Paris), August 29, 1886.
―. La Lanterne (Paris), September 16, 1886.
―. La Lanterne (Paris), November 26, 1886.
“Murder & Mutilation,” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, October 11, 1887.
“Murdered and Hacked to Pieces.” Atherstone Herald, August 13, 1886.
“Suspicious Discovery in the Thames.” Acton Gazette, June 13, 1874.
“The Chelsea Victim.” The Western Daily Press, July 26, 1889.
“The Discovery of Human Remains.” The Times, October 31, 1884.
―. Central Somerset Gazette, June 11, 1887.
“The Discovery of Human Remains in Lambeth.” The Evening Standard, June 18, 1902.
“The Latest London Horror.” The People, June 30, 1889.
“The London Mystery.” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, November 16, 1884.
“The Murder in Whitechapel.” The Times, September 12, 1889.
―. The Times, September 25, 1889.
“The Mysterious Murder and Mutilation.” London Daily News, September 16, 1873.
“The Pimlico Discovery.” The Echo, September 12, 1888.
“The Pimlico Mystery. - Another Discovery.” The Pall Mall Gazette, September 28, 1888.
“The Rainham Mystery.” The People, June 12, 1887.
“The Shocking Discovery at Dalston.” The Evening Standard, January 25, 1898.
“The Supposed Murder and Mutilation.” London Daily News, November 4, 1884.
“The Supposed Murder and Mutilation in London.” The People, November 16, 1884.
“The Supposed Murder of a Woman.” The Morning Post, September 9, 1873.
“The Thames Mystery.” The Morning Post, May 16, 1887.
―. Birmingham Weekly Mercury, June 15, 1889.
“The Whitechapel Mystery.” The Times, September 13, 1889.
―. The Times, September 14, 1889.
“The Whitehall Discovery.” Birmingham Daily Post, October 6, 1888.
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Hypothetical planets are those theorized to exist, whether by observation or prediction by means of examining gravitational fields. Several hypotheticals are discussed, with the story of the planet Vulcan, at one time thought to exist between Mercury and the Sun, discussed in-depth.
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In 1910, Dr. B.C. Hyde was put on trial for the murder of Colonel Thomas Swope, a wealthy Kansas City landowner the year before. Also included in the charges were manslaughter and several counts of attempted murder. This is a case I've gone back and forth on several times.
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“Col. T.H. Swope Goes to Rest.” Louisville Courier-Journal, October 4, 1909.
“Col. Thomas Swope Dead.” Cherryvale Republican (Kansas), October 4, 1909.
“Coroner's Jury Finds Dr. Hyde's Medicine Killed Swope.” St. Louis Star and Times, February 9, 1910.
“Dr. Twyman Very Ill.” Kansas City Star, April 18, 1910.
“For Third Time Dr. Hyde Will Face Trial Next Week.” Parsons Daily Sun (Kansas), May 24, 1912.
“Hyde and Wife to Take Stand.” St. Louis Star and Times, April 19, 1910.
“Hyde Trial Begins Again in Porterfield's Court.” Salina National Field (Kansas), October 23, 1911.
“Juror's Escape May Halt Hyde Trial.” St. Joseph News-Press, December 11, 1911.
“Kansas City Pioneer Gone.” West Plains Journal (Missouri), October 7, 1909.
“Letter in Swope Case is a Serial Story of Horrors.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 4, 1910.
“Mrs. Hyde Prompts Walsh.” Kansas City Star, April 23, 1910.
“Nurse Who Attended Swope Swears He Took Patent Medicine Containing Strychnine.” Cincinnati Enquirer, February 8, 1910.
“One of the Hyde Jury Ill.” Kansas City Star, November 30, 1911.
“Story of Death of Crisman (sic) Swope.” Deseret News, April 22, 1910.
“Stranger at Home of Missing Hyde Juror.” St. Louis Star and Times, December 13, 1911.
“Swope Murder Case is Opened.” Hope Pioneer (North Dakota), April 14, 1910.
“The Juror Returned.” Hutchinson News (Kansas), December 14, 1911.
“The Nurse Confused.” Fort Scott Tribune-Monitor (Kansas), April 23, 1910.
“The Rialto in Ruins.” Kansas City Star, December 23, 1909.
“Typhoid Story Out?” Kansas City Times, April 20, 1910.
“Witness Tells How Hyde Bought Disease Cultures.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 27, 1910.
Duke, Thomas Samuel. Celebrated Criminal Cases of America. San Francisco: The James H. Berry Company, 1910.
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Dr Bennett Clark Hyde Sr - Facts (ancestry.com)
An unidentified, mostly noncommunicative man in a Minnesota mental hospital, known as J.C.R., was the plaintiff in a case to prove his identity as a North Dakota rancher's son. Who was J.C.R.? Will we ever know?
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“Accused of Writing Bogus Checks.” Washington Post, January 7, 1905.
“Aphasia Victim May Be Naval Officer.” New York Tribune, May 26, 1913.
“Are Positive of Identity.” Long Beach Telegram (California), May 23, 1913.
“Bullets Write New Chapter in 'J.C.R.' Mystery.” Leavenworth Times (Kansas), May 4, 1917.
“Caldwell Will Case Postponed.” Grand Forks Herald (North Dakota), August 27, 1917.
“Dorothy Harris Claims to be Daughter of 'J.C.R.' and Heir to a Large Fortune.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune, November 16, 1919.
“Famous Identity Case Concluded Late Last Week.” Dickinson Press (North Dakota), January 20, 1917.
“Found Paralyzed.” La Crosse Tribune (Wisconsin), July 13, 1907.
“Four Others Identify 'Aye-Hee' as Ramsey.” Oregon Daily Journal, May 23, 1913.
“Girl, 18, Claims 'J.C.R.' Mystery man as Father.” Maurice Times (Iowa), December 11, 1919.
“Hopes of Fortune Depend on Flute.” Spokane Daily Chronicle, November 17, 1919.
“Insane Prisoner Attacks Sheriff.” Billings Gazette (Montana), August 10, 1917.
“Is He? Or Is He Not? Week of Court Serves to Deepen Mystery of 'J.C.R.'.” Dickinson Press (North Dakota), January 6, 1917.
“'J.C.R. Again in Our City.” Dickinson Press (North Dakota), July 31, 1915.
“'J.C.R.' Face to Face With Lost Identity.” Chicago Inter Ocean, January 17, 1914.
“J.C.R. Identified as James Harris Now Making Home with Former Wife.” Ward County Independent (Minnesota), August 26, 1920.
“'J.C.R.' in Visit to Dickinson.” Bismarck Tribune, November 14, 1921.
“'J.C.R.' on Co. Wants to Let Go.” Dickinson Press (North Dakota), April 10, 1915.
“'J.C.R.,' the Man of Mystery, Declared Seen in Spokane.” Spokane Chronicle (Washington), January 24, 1920.
“'J.C.R.' Walks to Dickinson.” Williston Graphic (North Dakota), August 5, 1915.
“Man of Mystery Found.” Seattle Star, January 27, 1920.
“Mrs. Pitkin Has an Unenviable Record.” Fargo Forum and Daily Republican (North Dakota), December 14, 1914.
“Mysterious 'J.C.R.' Identified as Man Missing since 1906.” St. Louis Star and Times (Missouri), November 19, 1914.
“Mystery Man for 13 Years is Brought Home.” Minneapolis Morning Tribune, August 18, 1920.
“Mystery Man of Stark is Paralyzed.” Bismarck Tribune, January 31, 1921.
“Noted Murder Case in North Dakota.” Rapid City Journal (North Carolina), June 19, 1917.
“Says She is Wrong.” Long Beach Telegram (California), May 22, 1913.
“'Silent Man' an Oklahoman?” Oklahoma Weekly Leader, May 29, 1913.
“Slayer of Two Caldwells Held Insane by Jury.” August 14, 1917.
“State News and Comment.” Bismarck Daily Tribune (North Dakota), April 10, 1915.
“Strange Case of 'J.C.R.' the Man of Mystery Who Has Apparently Lost All Track of Himself.” Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina), November 9, 1913.
“Trial of Mike Chumack Likely to be Postponed.” Hope Pioneer (North Dakota), June 14, 1917.
“Wife Looks for Jas. P. Harris.” Tampa Times, January 13, 1920.
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James H. Caldwell - Facts (ancestry.com)
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Strange Company: Who Was J.C.R.?
The “woman in black” stalked the streets of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and other towns and villages in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties in the winter of 1886-1887 and into the 1930s.
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Philadelphia Inquirer, November 8, 1886.
Scranton Republican, December 15, 1886.
Wilkes-Barre Record, January 5, 1887.
“Attacked For the Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, December 27, 1886.
“Caught At His Tricks.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, February 6, 1887.
“Caught the Woman in Black.” Scranton Republican, November 6, 1886.
“He Wasn't Afraid.” Carbondale Daily News, December 9, 1886.
“Lackawanna's Mystery.” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, November 30, 1886.
“Local Brevities.” Carbondale Daily News, December 4, 1886.
“Local Gleanings.” Pittston Evening Gazette, December 18, 1886.
“Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre Record, December 25, 1886.
“Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre Record, December 27, 1886.
“Plymouth.” Wilkes-Barre Record, December 28, 1886.
“Scared by a Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Record, December 30, 1886.
“Slammer Coleman as the Woman in Black.” Scranton Republican, December 9, 1886.
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“The Woman in Black.” New York Times, November 10, 1886.
“The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, November 23, 1886.
“The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Dollar Weekly News, December 25, 1886.
“The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre News, December 30, 1886.
“The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre News, December 31, 1886.
“The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday Leader, January 2, 1887.
“The Woman in Black.” New York Times, January 7, 1887.
“The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Weekly Dollar News, January 22, 1887.
“The Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre News, February 5, 1893.
“Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre News, December 27, 1886.
“Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Sunday News-Dealer, January 2, 1887.
“Woman in Black.” Wilkes-Barre Dollar Weekly News, January 15, 1887.
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Ancestry.com - U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 – Scranton 1886
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Luzerne County 1873 Pennsylvania Historical Atlas (historicmapworks.com)
Coal mining in Plymouth, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia
In the passage describing the attack on Wright Horton, the name of the sheriff's son is incorrectly given as Jules. His name was actually Julius, and I've corrected it to such.
In the winter of 1891-1892, a series of slashing attacks - and one murder - took place in the rough streets of the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, barely a stone's throw from the seedy hotel where “Old Shakespeare” was slain only a few months before.
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“Arraignment of the Slasher.” New York Sun, January 20, 1892.
“Carson's Slayer.” New York Evening World, January 18, 1892.
“Caught Cutting a Throat.” New York Tribune, January 18, 1892.
“Dowd Was Mad, the Jury Say.” New York Sun, January 30, 1892.
“Jack the Slasher Again.” Passaic (NJ) Daily News, January 16, 1892.
“Jack the Slasher in Court.” New York Evening World, January 28, 1892.
“Masterson a Roundsman Now.” New York Sun, January 20, 1892.
“Men Whom Dowd Slashed.” New York Evening World, January 29, 1892.
“Murder or Suicide?” New York Evening World, January 15, 1892.
“Red Revenge Day By Day.” Pittsburgh (PA) Dispatch, January 18, 1892.
“Saloon Keeper Flynn's Frenzy.” New York Sun, July 6, 1887.
“Slasher Dowd's Defense.” New York Evening World, January 21, 1892.
“Slasher Dowd's Trial Put Off.” New York Evening World, January 25, 1892.
“The Slasher's Brother Sane.” New York Evening World, January 28, 1892.
“The Weather.” Brooklyn Times-Union, January 18, 1892.
“Who Killed Lawyer Carson?” New York Evening World, January 16, 1892.
Dekle, George. The East River Ripper. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021.
New York, U.S., Sing Sing Prison Admission Registers, 1865-1939 - Ancestry.com
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In the early 1700s, the Lincolnshire rectory of Reverend Samuel Wesley, whose son John went on to found the Methodist Church, was haunted by a poltergeist, one which the Wesley children named Old Jeffrey.
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Bruce, H. Addington. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1908.
Yates, Kelly Diehl. “Jeffrey the Jacobite Poltergeist: the Politics of the Ghost That Haunted the Epworth Rectory in 1716-7.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 50:2 (Fall 2015).
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The History of Epworth Old Rectory - Epworth Old Rectory
At the Roots of Methodism: Escape from fire shaped Wesley's life (gcah.org)
In 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud.
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“Amazing Attempt of the Great Eleven Cult to Raise the Dead.” Shreveport (Louisiana) Times, April 6, 1930.
“Angel Gabriel Girls Quizzed.” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1925.
“Apostles of Doom to Wait Whole Week.” Pomona Bulletin, February 7, 1925.
“Believe Body May Be That of H. Balcom.” Santa Ana Register, October 8, 1929.
“Cult Leaders Face Charges.” Los Angeles Times, October 4, 1929.
“Cult Queen Tells of Being Chained Two Months to Bed Post.” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1929.
“Cult's Poison Rites Investigated as Rainbow Tells of Leader's Quest for Potion.” Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1929.
“Death Theory is Switched.” Long Beach Sun, October 10, 1929.
“Four Women Feared Slain in Cult Rites.” Oakland Tribune, October 9, 1929.
“Heart Murder Victim Seen as Rancher.” Long Beach Sun, October 18, 1929.
“Human Heart in Mail May Solve Crime.” Long Beach Sun, October 30, 1929.
“Kidnapping of Woman Feared.” San Francisco Examiner, March 21, 1927.
“Murder Victim Found on Ranch Near Westminster.” Santa Ana Register, October 7, 1929.
“Mystery of Simi Woman Revived.” Ventura County Star, December 17, 1937.
“New Chapter Written in Louise Volz Disappearance.” Ventura County Star, March 28, 1938.
“Pair Describe Death in Oven.” Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1929.
“Police on Search at Venice Cottage for Secret Grave of Young Cult Priestess.” Los Angeles Times, October 6, 1929.
“Probe L.A. Doom Cult.” Los Angeles Record, February 6, 1925.
“Sheriff Has New Theory.” Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1929.
“Vogel Adjudged Mentally Sick; to be Confined.” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1925.
Fort, Samuel. Cult of the Great Eleven. Omaha: Nisirtu Publishing, 2019.
ESDA | Rowen, Margaret Matilda Wright (1871–1939) (adventist.org)
Secrets of Los Angeles, 1932-33: The Anton Wagner files | Esotouric
As Above So Below: The Meaning of The Esoteric Phrase | Mysterium Academy
Pioneer Era – Strathearn Historical Park and Museum (simihistory.com)
People v. Blackburn, 214 Cal. 402 | Casetext Search + Citator
Mary Harlene Satoris - Facts (ancestry.com)
In 1920s Los Angeles, the mother-daughter duo of May Otis Blackburn and Ruth Wieland ran a female-dominated religious cult. The Blackburn Cult, as it was called in the newspapers of the time, came to the attention of the LAPD after a fraud investigation. But following the clues soon led to revelations of far worse offenses than simple fraud.
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Oregon Daily Journal, August 5, 1917.
“Body of Cult Priestess Discovered Under House.” Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1929.
“Police Probing Weird Burial by Cult.” Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, October 7, 1929.
“Priestess Snubs Ex-Swain.” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 1929.
“Rhoads is Known at Klamath Falls.” Salem Statesman Journal, October 10, 1929.
“Vancouver Marriage Licenses.” Oregon Daily Journal, May 28, 1915.
Fort, Samuel. Cult of the Great Eleven. Omaha: Nisirtu Publishing, 2019.
Fremont Everett - Facts (ancestry.com)
Ruth Angeline Wieland - Facts (ancestry.com)
The White Star Line lost many ships over the years, most famously the Titanic in 1912. But over its century of existence, it had only one ship vanish without a trace. Did it sink in a storm? Explode due to its volatile cargo? This is the story of the Naronic.
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“Another Naronic Hoax.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 3, 1893.
“Fears for Ocean Steamers.” Delaware Gazette and State Journal, March 9, 1893.
“Is She Still Afloat?” Wilkes-Barre Record,March 8, 1893.
“Nine Sailors Saved.” Wilmington Morning News, March 8, 1893.
“No News of the Naronic.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 8, 1893.
“No Tidings of the Naronic.” Wilmington Morning News, March 8, 1893.
“Put Into Halifax.” Boston Globe, February 26, 1893.
“Regarded as a Hoax.” Norfolk Virginian, March 31, 1893.
“Rosseau Admits He Sent Dynamite to Liner.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 1905.
“Rosseau, Dynamiter, Guilty, the Jury Says.” New York Times, March 28, 1905.
“She is Lost.” Boston Globe, March 20, 1893.
“The Naronic.” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate (Aus.), August 30, 1893.
“The Naronic's Boat Picked Up.” Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner's Advocate (Aus.), January 18, 1894.
”The Naronic Mystery.” The Australian Star, March 27, 1893.
“Thinks They Blew Up Maine.” New York Times, March 29, 1905.
“To Dynamite British Ships.” Kendrick (ID) Gazette, January 20, 1905.
“Toilers of the Sea.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, February 25, 1893.
“What To Do With Cranks.” New York Times, January 17, 1905.
“With an Infernal Machine Man Called at Kelly Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 14, 1905.
What Happened to the Naronic? (titanic-whitestarships.com)
NARONIC MYSTERY UPDATED. | Waratah Revisited
Ever wonder what Frederick the Great is doing in Carlisle? - pennlive.com
In 1894, an injured young girl arrives on the doorstep of a Missouri farmhouse. She was Nellie Meeks, and she was the sole survivor of the murder of her entire family.
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“Burnt Clothing of Gus Meeks.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 27, 1895.
“Crime of Fiends.” St. Joseph Herald, May 12, 1894.
“Final Pleas Being Made.” Kansas City Star, August 1, 1895.
“Jerry South Gets His Reward.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 1, 1896.
“Jury Receives Instructions.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 2, 1895.
“Looks Black for the Taylors.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 26, 1895.
“Story of the Taylors.” Larned (KS) Eagle-Optic, September 13, 1895.
“Taylor Is Hanged.” St. Joseph Herald, May 1, 1896.
“Taylor Makes a Statement.” Mexico Weekly Intelligencer, April 30, 1896.
“Taylor Taken to Carrollton.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 28, 1896.
“The End of the Famous Meeks-Taylor Case.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 8, 1926.
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“William Taylor Executed.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 1, 1896.
“William Taylor in Kansas City.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, April 11, 1896.
Nellie L. Meeks - Facts (ancestry.com)
John Blackwell Hale - Wikipedia
Thomas Miles Bresnehen (1860-1926) - Find A Grave Memorial
History in Hannibal: Folktale relates town's horror over Meeks' family murders | Article | hannibal.net
Several mysterious deaths are described here – two with hints of conspiracy and cover-up, those of Allyn King Foster and Rudolph Bogovich, and another case of apparently not-so-spontaneous combustion.
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Allyn King Foster – January 17, 1942
“Authorities Probe Doctor's Death at Bellevue Hospital.” Hartford Courant, January 20, 1942.
“Autopsy Clears Bellevue in Death.” New York Daily News, May 12, 1938.
“Doctor's Death Being Probed.” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, January 19, 1942.
“Experiments With Death Ray Seen Clue to Doctor's Insanity and Death.” Camden Morning Post, February 3, 1942.
“Fears Death Ray Work Drove Surgeon Insane.” Brooklyn Eagle, February 2, 1942.
“Probe Demanded in Bellevue Death.” New York Daily News, May 5, 1938.
“Mystery Veils Violent End of Death Ray Inventor.” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 8, 1942
“Refugee Inventor of 'Death Ray' Dies.” St. Louis Star and Times, September 1, 1942.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txXhy5EqjHw
Rudolph Bogovich – January 6, 1945
“Eerie Red Death Plot Here Alleged.” Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, March 4, 1954.
“F.B.I. Probes War Worker's Bomb Death.” Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, January 7, 1945.
“Human Bomb Death Unsolved.” Pittsburgh Press, January 14, 1945.
“Probe Human Bomb Death of Westinghouse Worker.” Sunbury Daily Item, January 9, 1945.
“Queer War Plant Death Stumps FBI.” Unionville (MI) Crescent, January 13, 1945.
“Westinghouse Fires Five Accused Reds.” Pittsburgh Press, January 4, 1955.
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Harold Hall – April 28, 1956
“Benicia Death Laid to Cleaning Fluid.” Contra Costa Gazette, May 2, 1956.
“Harold Hall of Benicia Fire Victim.” Contra Costa Gazette, April 30, 1956.
“Mystery Burns Fatal to Benicia Man in Apartment.” Oakland Tribune, April 30, 1956.
1956, April 28: Harold Hall’s Fiery Death | Anomalies: the Strange & Unexplained (anomalyinfo.com)
Several mysterious deaths are described here – a quartet of cases described by Charles Fort, those of Captain George M. Colvocoresses, the English case of Lavinia Farrar, Lillian Green and her death at the Lake Denmark Hotel in New Jersey, and the “locked door” death of New York launderer Isidore Fink.
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Captain George M. Colvocoresses
“A Tragical Enigma.” New York Times, July 1, 1872.
“Colvocoresses – Murder or Suicide?” Hartford Courant, August 5, 1872.
Lavinia Farrar
“Inquest.” The Times, March 16, 1901.
Lillian Green
“Erskine Hotel Burned.” Passaic Daily News, December 26, 1916.
“Miss Green Died Accidental Death.” Paterson Morning Call, December 28, 1916.
“Mystery in the Death of Dover Woman.” Paterson News, December 27, 1916.
“Mystery Shrouds Burned Woman.” Paterson Morning Call, December 27, 1916.
Isidore Fink
“Laundryman Killer Flees Locked Room.” Brooklyn Times-Union, March 11, 1929.
“Man Killed; All Openings Locked; Police Baffled.” Arizona Republic, March 12, 1929.
The election of 1934 saw Democrats gain headway nationally in the wake of the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Republicans in Kelayres, Pennsylvania, dominated by the Bruno family, weren't going to go down without a fight.
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“2 Commissioners Arrested for Plot in Bruno's Escape.” Reading Times, December 24, 1936.
“14 Year Old Girl of Kelayres Has Flag Recognized.” Hazelton Standard-Speaker, January 15, 1935.
“50 Republican Votes Gained in Kline Twp.” Pottsville Republican-Herald, November 13, 1933.
“A Proclamation.” Hazleton Standard-Speaker, November 8, 1934.
“Bruno Trial to Reach Jury By Next Friday.” Pottsville Republican and Herald, September 17, 1935.
“Contest Kline Twp. Election.” Pottsville Republican, December 6, 1933.
“Dramatic Scene as Woman Shouts Answer to Bruno.” Hazelton Standard-Speaker, January 29, 1935.
“Eye-Witnesses in Kelayres Case Ready to Testify.” Hazelton Standard-Speaker, January 14, 1935.
“Four Bruno Men Hear Murder Writ in County Prison.” Hazleton Standard-Speaker, November 8, 1934.
“Joseph Bruno Found Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter; Carries Six to Twelve Years.” Shenandoah Evening Herald, February 7, 1935.
“Kline Township Recount Stands.” Hazleton Plain Speaker, November 14, 1933.
“News of the South Side.” Hazleton Plain Speaker, December 30, 1933.
“Mandamus Action in Kline Township.” Hazleton Plain Speaker, August 31, 1933.
“Three Are Dead in Voting Feud.” New Castle News, November 6, 1934.
“Unspeakable Outrage, Declares Gov. Pinchot of Hazleton Slayings.” New Castle News, November 6, 1934.
“Voice in Broken English Vividly Outlined Rat-Tat-Tat of Gunfire.” Hazelton Standard-Speaker, January 18, 1935.
“Witnesses Back in Kelayres Homes.” Hazleton Standard-Speaker, November 8, 1934.
Cerullo, John and Gennaro Delena. “The Kelayres Massacre.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 107:3 (July 1983).
Hoover, Stephanie. The Kelayres Massacre: Politics & Murder in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Coal Country. Xxx
Newsreel Report about the Massacre - (1) 1934 Kelayres Massacre - YouTube The woman interviewed towards the end is, I think, either Irene Condor or Sarah Fiorilla. The scruffy man shown lying in a hospital bed is most likely Edward Vespucci.
The Tuileries Palace in Paris was supposedly haunted by a red, dwarfish figure that warned inhabitants of imminent catastrophy.
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Red Man: The Tuileries Palace Ghost - Geri Walton
The Little Red Man | dix-neuviémiste (wordpress.com)
Cosimo Ruggeri - Wikipedia
The Palais des Tuileries, in search of a missing Palace - French Moments
Assassin's Creed Unity Murder Mystery Guide: Page 15 | GamesRadar+
The crimson fairy and the red | British Fairies (wordpress.com)
In 1909, in the book Pennsylvania Mountain Stories, Henry W. Shoemaker recounted the tale of “The Black Wolf of Oak Valley.” The names in this story were changed, and after digging around, I found the original tale that this story was based on: the 1896 saga of outlaw William Etlinger.
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Altoona Tribune, May 2, 1896.
Lewisburg Journal, July 8, 1885.
Perry County Democrat, May 27, 1885.
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“A Dramatic Tragedy.” Lancaster Intelligencer, March 11, 1896.
“A Monument to Barner.” Lewisburg Journal, March 20, 1896.
“As A Museum Curio.” Indiana Progress, March 11, 1896.
“Death Rather Than Capture.” Perry County Democrat, March 11, 1896.
“Defiant to the Last.” Lock Haven Evening Express, March 7, 1896.
―. Philadelphia Inquirer, March 7, 1896.
“Defies Half a Hundred.” Lancaster Intelligencer, March 7, 1896.
“Etlinger's Body Not Removed.” Philadelphia Times, March 11, 1896.
“His Body is Undisturbed.” Washington (DC) Times, March 11, 1896.
“Man Who Reports Deaths in Chair Never Saw One.” Pittsburgh Press, January 16, 1938.
“No Tears For Him.” Wilkes-Barre News, March 9, 1896.
“Robbed of About $4,000.” Lewisburg Chronicle, February 25, 1905.
“School Funds Missing.” Millheim Journal, April 23, 1885.
“Sequel to a Tragedy.” Aspen (CO) Daily Times, March 18, 1896.
“The Sheriff Must Pay Damages.” Mount Union Times, September 22, 1899.
“Tragedy at Woodward.” Lewisburg Journal, March 13, 1896.
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The Woodward Shoot-Out – The Pennsylvania Rambler
William Ettlinger, the Desperado of Woodward (paoddities.blogspot.com)
Howard Orndorf - Facts (ancestry.com)
In 1854, heir to the Tichborne baronetcy, Roger Tichborne, disappears after a shipwreck. He's presumed dead until, in 1865, an Australian butcher comes forward and announces himself to be the missing nobleman.
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“The Tichborne Case.” Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, November 9, 1867.
“The Tichborne Dole.” London Daily News, September 6, 1855.
“The Tichborne Heir.” Indiana (PA) Progress, September 24, 1930.
“Tichborne Claimant's Story to be Subject of Coming British Film.” Montreal Gazette, September 5, 1936.
The books of Dr E. V. Kenealy (occult-mysteries.org)
Theresa Doughty Tichborne - Wikipedia
In 1919, 21-year old Bella Wright was shot on a roadside near Little Stretton, Leicestershire, England. The man thought to have committed the crime was acquitted. But the question remains: did he do it? Or if not, exactly what did happen that July evening?
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Green Bicycle Mystery Map - Google My Maps
Scientists and laymen alike have long sought to build a machine capable of perpetual motion. Several attempts are described here, especially focusing on the well-documented, and still controversial, efforts of Johann Bessler, better known as Orffyreus.
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(104) Johann Bessler Perpetual Motion Machine Bessler Rad - YouTube
(104) Redheffer machine à mouvement perpétuel - YouTube
Archimedes' screw - Wikipedia
The Mysterious Stranger – Part 1 - TFOT (thefutureofthings.com)
Orffyreus and Leibniz - Part 2 - TFOT (thefutureofthings.com)
ORFFYREUS ( BESSLER) AND HIS PERPETUL MOTION WHEELS (tripod.com)
In late 1930s Philadelphia, a murder-for-profit ring rivalling the French Affair of the Poisons, run by two cousins named Petrillo, is uncovered. This is the story of the Poison Ring.
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“15 more poisoners face arrest as ring’s toll mounts hourly; crowd threatens Mrs. Favato.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 1939.
“2 more confess poison killings, third admits drowning plot; U.S. May enter investigation.” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 1939.
“3 confess arsenic plot as 7 others deny guilt.” Lancaster New Era, May 25, 1939.
“3rd widow freed in insurance ring.” Reading Times, December 12, 1939.
“Arsenic suspect believed slain to balk justice.” Allentown Morning Call, May 10, 1939.
“Bail is denied in poison case.” Wilmington News Journal, September 7, 1939.
“Beach slayer dies in cell.” Delaware County Daily Times, January 11, 1936.
“Death threats menace son of triple slayer.” Kokomo (IN) Tribune, April 24, 1939.
“Calls uncle, who sent him up, a poisoner.” New York Daily News, February 10, 1939.
“Commutation saves woman from chair.” Latrobe Bulletin, June 20, 1941.
“Completing jury in another poison trial.” Mount Carmel Item, December 13, 1939.
“Convict Swartz for murder of mother in law.” Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, June 14, 1940.
“'Customer' of murder syndicate starts term.” Scranton Times-Tribune, October 29, 1940.
“Enters guilty plea in mass murders.” Danville Morning News, February 27, 1940.
“Faces 30-year term for husband's poison death.” St. Louis (MO) Star and Times, December 14, 1939.
“Fast hearings stun suspects in poison cases.” Baltimore Sun, May 11, 1939.
“Five police win Inquirer awards for smashing poison ring.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 10, 1939.
“Follow poison murder ring's trail to N.Y.” New York Daily News, May 14, 1939.
“Framed to hide poison deaths, prisoner says.” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 12, 1939.
“Gets 2-20 years in poison deaths.” Reading Times, December 13, 1939.
“G-men to enter probe of Phila. mass murders.” Delaware County Times, May 15, 1939.
“Hold 'death rose;' 12 more indicted.” New York Daily News, May 20, 1939.
“Insurance plot suspect linked with deaths of 3.” Allentown Morning Call, January 9, 1936.
“Jury given case of Reading man in N.J. drowning.” Reading Times, October 13, 1939.
“Kiss of death woman is held without bail.” Bristol Daily Courier, May 19, 1939.
“Last principal jailed in arsenic murder ring.” Scranton Times, December 13, 1945.
“Life sentence given Rodia in drowning case.” Camden Morning Post, October 14, 1939.
“'Love healer' gives up in poison ring probe.” New York Daily News, May 2, 1939.
“Man, woman convicted in murder-for-insurance trials.” Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, September 28, 1939.
“Murder-for-profit ring sets record in American crime.” New York Daily News, May 21, 1939.
“Murder gang used hemlock.” Salt Lake Telegram, May 4, 1939.
“Murder ring doctor makes guilty plea.” Harrisburg Evening News, February 26, 1940.
“Nab long-sought widow in mass-murder probe.” York Gazette and Daily, May 19, 1939.
“Nine New York murders laid to poisoners.” Pittsburgh Press, May 12, 1939.
“Petrillo dies in electric chair.” New Castle News, October 20, 1941.
“Petrillo's boast of arsenic murders revealed by witness.” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 1939.
“Philadelphia police hunt sources of 'witch's brew.'” Racine (WI) Journal-Times, May 13, 1939.
“Poison ring plotted death of Phila. aides.” Camden (NJ) Morning Post, May 3, 1939.
“Poison slayer pleads guilty.” York Daily Record, September 16, 1939.
“Police arrest 2 more widows in poison quiz.” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 1939.
“Quaker city starts arraigning mass-murder suspects.” Baltimore Sun, May 11, 1939.
“Rodio case is given to jury.” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 13, 1939.
“Rodio guilty of murder; doctor tries suicide.” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 14, 1939.
“Rose Carilli convicted of manslaughter.” Wilmington Morning News, December 14, 1939.
“Rose Carilli drops fight for freedom.” Wilmington Morning News, January 23, 1940.
“Rose Carina freed in $2500 bail for new murder trial.” Camden Morning Post, January 3, 1940.
“Says Swartz asked facts on poisons.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 16, 1939.
“Seeress and collegian held in murder probe.” Pottsville Republican and Herald, June 20, 1939.
“Spared from chair.” Carlisle Sentinel, July 1, 1941.
“Survivors got lesser dose to postpone doom.” Camden (NJ) Morning Post, May 3, 1939.
“Suspect brought to N.J. for trial in insurance murder.” Camden Morning Post, June 7, 1939.
“Suspect in mass murders taken in Cleveland.” Carlisle Sentinel, May 17, 1939.
“Swartz insane; trial called off.” Philadelphia Inquirer, December 21, 1939.
“Two more admit their parts in death syndicate.” Sayre Evening Times, April 29, 1939.
“Two offered jobs as executioners expose vast murder corporation.” Racine (WI) Journal-Times, May 13, 1939.
“Two poison ring leaders admit part in deaths.” Harrisburg Evening News, April 29, 1939.
“Wife held in plot to poison husband.” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 1938.
“Wife of former Scranton man is held for murder.” Scranton Times-Tribune, May 12, 1939.
“'Witch' sobs at life term for poison.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2, 1940.
“'Witch' swayed mind, wife-poisoner pleads.” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21, 1940.
“Witness mailed death threats.” Wilmington (DE) News, January 6, 1939.
“Woman, 28, is shot by former suitor during a quarrel.” Brooklyn Eagle, December 14, 1936.
“Woman arrested climaxing probe of arsenic ring.” Wilmington Morning News, September 2, 1939.
“Woman poisoner twice attempts to take life.” Harrisburg Evening News, April 29, 1939.
Young, R.J. “Arsenic and No Lace: The Bizarre Tale of a Philadelphia Murder Ring.” Pennsylvania History 67:3 (Autumn 2000).
Commonwealth v. Petrillo, 12 A.2d 317, 338 Pa. 65 – CourtListener.com
Commonwealth v. Petrillo, 16 A.2d 50, 340 Pa. 33 – CourtListener.com
Commonwealth v. Petrillo, 19 A.2d 288, 341 Pa. 209 – CourtListener.com
Commonwealth v. Giovanetti, 19 A.2d 119, 341 Pa. 345 – CourtListener.com
Commonwealth v. Giacobbe, 19 A.2d 71, 341 Pa. 187 – CourtListener.com
Philadelphia Poison Ring Murders: a Virtual Cemetery - Find A Grave
From 1925-1927, the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut was terrorized by an individual who came to be known as the “Phantom Stabber.” This unidentified person stabbed at least 25 people, mainly teenage girls. None of his victims were seriously injured, though. But in the wake of the Bridgeport attacks, other cities in Connecticut begin to experience assaults of their own, leading to the question: just how many victims did the Stabber really have?
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“Alarming new outbreak of strange stranglers, stabbers and clippers.” Ogden (UT) Standard Examiner, December 18, 1927.
“Attacks woman in street; may be phantom stabber.” Hartford Courant, January 4, 1928.
“Bridgeport, Conn., 'phantom stabber' gets 25th victim.” Burlington (VT) Free Press, December 8, 1927.
“Bridgeport's phantom stabber again active.” New Britain Herald, December 4, 1926.
“Bridgeport's phantom stabber is again on rampage, girl attacked.” New Britain Herald, July 26, 1927.
“Bridgeport phantom stabber out again.” New Britain Herald, May 31, 1928.
“Bridgeport stabber gets 18th victim.” Hartford Courant, January 7, 1927.
“Bridgeport woman cut; 'phantom' is suspected.” Hartford Courant, June 1, 1928.
“Certain stabber story was hoax.” New Britain Herald, June 5, 1928.
“Danbury 'phantom stabber' classed as mental child.” Hartford Courant, September 28, 1929.
“Danbury's phantom stabber claims his third victim.” Meriden Record-Journal, May 9, 1929.
“Doubt that stabber embraced girl.” Bridgeport Telegram, January 8, 1927.
“Ernest Horn, 75, dies.” Bridgeport Post, June 18, 1957.
“Fiend stabs boy, escapes in darkness.” Bridgeport Telegram, November 27, 1925.
“Girl, face torn in embrace, says stabber attacked her upon street.” Bridgeport Telegram, January 7, 1927.
“Girl stabbed at Bridgeport.” Barre (VT) Daily Times, July 26, 1927.
“Girls stabbed by 'phantom'.” Meriden Journal, August 14, 1926.
“Gripped by terror of the 'phantom stabber'.” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 6, 1927.
“Hartford boy not stabber of Bridgeport.” Hartford Courant, February 18, 1928.
“Mad stabber flees; posses in manhunt.” New York Daily News, March 21, 1929.
“Man could have caught stabber, victim asserts.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 8, 1927.
“Man stabs girl and gets away.” Hartford Courant, January 25, 1928.
“Man, under cover of fog, stabs woman; wound serious.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 31, 1927.
“Man, who struck teacher,, is held pending inquiry.” Bridgeport Telegram, January 6, 1927.
“Maniac, missing since March, caught in N.H.” Hartford Courant, November 8, 1929.
“Mystery of Bridgeport's 16 stabbed girls.” San Francisco Examiner, December 26, 1926.
“News of Southington.” Meriden Journal, January 26, 1928.
“'Phantom stabber' again.” Burlington (VT) Free Press, January 7, 1928.
“'Phantom stabber' again walks; boy is victim.” Palm Beach (FL) Post, November 28, 1925.
“'Phantom stabber' appears in city again, strikes at girl.” Bridgeport Telegram, August 6, 1926.
“Phantom stabber escapes.” Cincinnati Enquirer, January 4, 1928.
“'Phantom stabber' gets 25th victim, strikes at girl on Pequonnock St.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 8, 1927.
“Phantom stabber gets 26th victim.” Burlington (VT) Free Press, December 31, 1927.
“Phantom stabber hits again, girl in Stamford is victim.” Meriden Record-Journal, October 17, 1928.
“'Phantom stabber' in Bridgeport cuts twenty-third girl.” Hartford Courant, August 28, 1927.
“Phantom stabber reappears in Derby, girl is injured.” Bridgeport Telegram, July 1, 1927.
“'Phantom stabber' rumor excites women of city.” New Britain Herald, January 11, 1928.
“Phantom stabber suspect arrested, held for examination.” Hartford Courant, December 23, 1927.
“Phantom stabs girl in Beardsley Park, makes good his 24th escape.” Bridgeport Telegram, September 30, 1927.
“Police busy running down phantom stabber rumors.” Meriden Journal, January 19, 1928.
“Police close on stabber's trail.” New Britain Herald, December 9, 1927.
“Police must be futile, hampered, priest declares.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 9, 1927.
“Police reticence on 'stabber' is seen as concealment coup.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 12, 1925.
“Police seek two who saw stabber.” Bridgeport Telegram, August 7, 1926.
“Tells of attack by stabber here two weeks ago.” Hartford Courant, January 5, 1928.
“Tennis star, 14, 24th victim of ghost stabber.” New York Daily News, September 30, 1927.
“The phantom stabber.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 9, 1927.
“The phantom stabber returns.” Hartford Courant, September 5, 1926.
“Stabber again plys his game.” Billings (MT) Gazette, December 31, 1927.
“Stabber victims will be called to look at suspect.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 23, 1927.
“Stabber wounds two more girls; nearly captured by steeple-jack.” Bridgeport Telegram, August 13, 1926.
“Stabber's victim would 'slap him good and hard.'” Bridgeport Telegram, September 30, 1927.
“Stabbing fiend lies low as police net is drawn.” Bridgeport Telegram, November 25, 1925.
“Stabbing fiend suspect freed of major charge.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 4, 1925.
“Stabs girl at entrance of church.” Rutland (VT) News, October 8, 1926.
“Two more girls stabbing victims; total now eight.” Bridgeport Telegram, November 24, 1925.
“Withdraw all but few men from routine work is Behrens' suggestion.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 9, 1927.
“Woman asserts she was stabbed over month ago, police question theory.” Bridgeport Telegram, December 12, 1927.
Levins, Peter. “What has happened to justice? How phantom stabber terrorized Bridgeport in three-year reign.” New York Daily News, April 13, 1930.
History - Bridgeport, CT
In the midst of the furor in the press, British and otherwise, circulating around the notorious Jack The Ripper murders in Whitechapel, references are made to a number of murders attributed to the same killer. Several of these cases are discussed here, and the particulars of them examined to determine whether the notion of their being Ripper murders is a theory with any merit.
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“A Jack the Ripper in Holland.” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, November 25, 1898.
“Another Jack the Ripper.” Mound Valley (KS) Herald, September 8, 1893.
“Brutal Murder in St. Catherine.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, January 1, 1889.
“De drievoudige moord te Marolleput.” Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. November 17, 1893.
“De moord te Marolleput.” Dagblad van Zuidholland en 's Gravenhage, September 1, 1893.
“De moord te Marolleput.” Opregte Haarlemsche Courant, September 11, 1893.
“El Destripador Asturiano.” El Imparcial, April 6, 1895.
“Fiendish Murder of a Young Woman Near Gateshead.” Hull Daily Mail, September 24, 1888.
“Jack At Work Again.” Mitchell (SD) Daily Republican, January 23, 1889.
“Jack el Destripador en España.” El Imparcial, April 5, 1895.
“Jack The Ripper.” Atchison (KS) Daily Globe, February 7, 1889.
“Moord te Marolleput.” De Telegraaf, September 1, 1893.
“Moord te Marolleput.” De Telegraaf, September 6, 1893.
“Moord te Marolleput.” De Telegraaf, September 12, 1893.
“Murder At Birtley.” Illustrated Police News, September 29, 1888.
“Spanish Town.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, January 11, 1889.
“Spanish Town.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, January 14, 1889.
“The Gateshead Murder.” Eastern Morning News, September 26, 1888.
“The Murder of Estina Crawford.” Kingston Daily Gleaner, January 16, 1889.
“The Tragedy Near Gateshead.” Hull Daily Mail, September 25, 1888.
Begg, Paul and John Bennett. Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Machiel Lampier (1858 - 1931) - Genealogy (geni.com)
Maria Theresia Banckaart (c.1819 - 1893) - Genealogy (geni.com)
Rosalia Bert (c.1853 - 1893) - Genealogy (geni.com)
Melanie Octavie Bert (c.1852 - 1893) - Genealogy (geni.com)
Casebook: Jack the Ripper - A Ripper Victim That Wasn't: The Capture of Jane Beadmore's Killer
El blog de "Acebedo": Francisco Martínez Incógnito ,"el Botas"
In 1828, a young man wandered into the city of Nuremberg. No older than fifteen or sixteen, he told a strange story, of how he had been kept in a dungeon for years, ignorant of where he was or who was keeping him there. And one day, he was pulled from his prison and sent to the city. For the next several years, controversy raged as to who this young man was. And in 1833 he would die, his death, like his life, a mystery. Was he a noble plucked from death and hidden away? Was he a foundling exiled from his home? Or was he simply a trickster?
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Bondeson, Jan. The Great Pretenders. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
Lang, Andrew. Historic Mysteries. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905.
Stanhope, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina. The True Story of Kaspar Hauser, from Official Documents. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.
Stanhope, Philip Henry. Tracts Relating to Caspar Hauser. London: James S. Hodson, 1836.
Valbert, M.G. “The History of a Delusion.” Popular Science Monthly 30 (April 1887).
von Feuerbach, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter. Caspar Hauser: An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon, Separated From All Communication With the World, From Early Childhood to About the Age of Seventeen. Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1832.
https://travel.sygic.com/en/poi/neutorturm-poi:14991936
http://threeman.org/?p=39
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schloss_Pilsach
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kaspar-hausers-raetsel-zweiter-teil-sargverlust-in-der-fuerstengruft-11822206.html
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspar_Hauser
San Francisco, 1895. One of the more notorious trials of the 19th Century was that of Theo Durrant, "the Demon of the Belfry," for the murders of two young ladies in Emmanuel Baptist Church.
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“A Bloody Shoe is Found in the Church.” San Francisco Call, April 21, 1895.
“A Dreadful Affair!” Boston Globe, May 24, 1875.
“A Horrible Tragedy in a Church.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 14, 1895.
“A Murderer Hanged.” Morrisville (VT) News and Citizen, June 1, 1876.
“Alleged Expose of Theo. Durrant.” Spokane Spokesman-Review, August 21, 1895.
“Blacker Grows the Cloud Over Emmanuel Baptist Church.” San Francisco Call, April 15, 1895.
“Blanche Lamont's Ring.” Downs (KS) Times, September 26, 1895.
“Blood Stained Coat Found in Berkeley.” San Francisco Call, April 23, 1895.
“Durrant and His Girl Companion Traced Beyond Church Gate.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 1895.
“Durrant Rode With A Bundle.” San Francisco Examiner, April 21, 1895.
“Durrant Will Hang.” Fort Wayne Gazette, May 16, 1897.
“Durrant's Story Ended.” Topeka Daily Capital, October 12, 1895.
“Five Years of Undetected Crimes.” San Francisco Call, August 7, 1898.
“Flimsy Yarn.” Xenia (OH) Daily Gazette, October 28, 1895.
“Fluegel is in a Fix.” San Francisco Chronicle, January 3, 1895.
“Forging the Chain.” Vancouver Daily World, April 17, 1895.
“George King to Testify To-day.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 1895.
“Her Aim Was Bad.” San Francisco Call, June 9, 1891.
“Martin Quinlan's Victim.” San Francisco Examiner, September 16, 1891.
“Missing From Home.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 1895.
“Planning Alibis for Durrant.” San Francisco Examiner, October 29, 1895.
“Press Privileges.” Champaign (IL) Daily Gazette, October 4, 1895.
“Quinlan Pugilistically Inclined.” San Francisco Call, August 5, 1891.
“Rev. J. George Gibson Pays His Respects to Eugene Deuprey.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 1895.
“Secretary McCoy of the Y.M.C.A. Is a New Figure in the Durrant Trial.” San Francisco Chronicle, October 2, 1895.
“She Tried To Keep Her Secret.” San Francisco Examiner, September 14, 1895.
“Slayer of M.D. Foley Becomes a Bride.” San Francisco Examiner, January 5, 1899.
“Still After Gibson.” San Francisco Call, April 26, 1895.
“Taken Into the Mission.” San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 1895.
“The Durrant Trial.” Chilliwack (BC) Progress, October 2, 1895.
“The Missing Lady.” Anaconda (MT) Standard, April 11, 1895.
“The New Witness Against Durrant.” San Francisco Examiner, August 17, 1895.
“Theo. Durrant's Double.” Saint Paul Globe, August 3, 1895.
“Think He is Insane.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 25, 1895.
Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The Great American Fraud: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quacks. New York: P.F. Collier & Sons, 1905.
Jackson, Joseph Henry and Lenore Glen Offord. The Girl in the Belfry. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1957.
Peixotto, Edgar D. Report of the Trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant. Detroit: Collector Publishing, 1899.
http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/08/the-boston-belfry-tragedy.htm
https://casebook.org/dissertations/rip-teascandal.html#:~:text=In%20a%20book%20I%20haven%E2%80%99t%20read%2C%20The%20Bell,Gibson%2C%20resigned%20his%20parish%20in%20Scotland%20in%201887.
Caroline Crachami, "The Sicilian Fairy," was one of the earliest identified cases of primordial dwarfism known. She was barely a foot and a half feet tall. The Mexican Lucia Zarate had a similar condition.
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“Little People Make Mark On History.” Binghamton (NY) Press and Sun-Bulletin, February 5, 1978.
“Two Human Wonders.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 10, 1876.
Bondeson, Jan. A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
Wood, Gaby. “The Smallest of All Persons Mentioned in the Records of Littleness.” London Review of Books 19:24 (December 11, 1997).
http://www.sideshowworld.com/13-TGOD/2009/tgod-Lucia-Zarate-1.html
http://casagrande-museo.blogspot.com/
The story of Helen Eiker, a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania woman who was the first woman convicted of homicide in Adams County. At only 18, she was one of the youngest people convicted, as well. There was a loose connection with the Pennsylvania Dutch magical tradition known as pow-wow.
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“Accuses Daughter-in-Law of Faith in Pow-wowism; Girl Adds to Revelations.” Gettysburg Times, December 10, 1928.
“Bar Reporters from Talking To Mrs. Eiker.” Gettysburg Times, March 18, 1929.
“Court Reserves His Decision in Motion for New Eiker Trial.” Gettysburg Times, October 16, 1928.
“Eiker Estate Valued At $300.” Gettysburg Times, July 18, 1928.
“Eiker Killed Himself in Struggle to Wrest Gun from Girl-wife, is Defense Plea in Trial of Widow.” Gettysburg Times, August 29, 1928.
“Fatal Shot An Accident, She Says.” Carlisle Sentinel, August 30, 1928.
“Mrs. Eiker Blamed For Husband's Death By Coroner's Jury.” Gettysburg Times, July 18, 1928.
“Mrs. Helen Eiker is Buried Today.” Gettysburg Times, November 21, 1932.
“Mrs. Helen Eiker Denies Faith in 'Pow-wowism'; Reveals Fake Treatments.” Gettysburg Times, December 8, 1928.
“Mrs. Helen Eiker Dies This Morning After Long Illness.” Gettysburg Times, November 18, 1932.
“Mrs. Helen Eiker Sentenced to 5-10 Years in Prison.” Gettysburg Times, March 4, 1929.
“Mrs. Helen Eiker Starts Sentence.” Hanover Evening Sun, March 22, 1929.
“Percy Eiker, Killed by Wife, Tries to Shield Her With Story of Suicide Attempt.” Gettysburg Times, July 10, 1928.
“Shoots Husband.” East Berlin News-Comet, July 13, 1928.
“Slain Man Buried; Widow Views Body.” East Berlin News-Comet, July 20, 1928.
“Slayer of Spouse is Critical in Hospital in Philadelphia.” Gettysburg Times, June 18, 1930.
“Slayer Sinks Lower, Report At Hospital.” Gettysburg Times, June 19, 1930.
“Swope Claims Court Biased in His Charge.” Gettysburg Times, September 1, 1928.
“Young Convicted Widowed-Mother Was 'Pow-wowed'.” Gettysburg Times, December 7, 1928.
“Young Mother is Convicted of Second Degree Murder; Jury is Out Only 4 Hours.” Gettysburg Times, August 30, 1928.
“Young Mother is Indifferent About Verdict.” Gettysburg Times, August 31, 1928.
“Young Wife Charged With Husband's Murder.” Adams County Independent, July 12, 1928.
In the summer of 1951, a housing project in southeastern Baltimore claims to be the haunt of a hunchbacked, black-clad phantom which leaps extraordinary distances a la Spring-Heeled Jack.
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“400 Pupils Out in 'Strike' For School Bus.” Baltimore Evening Sun, January 3, 1946.
“8,170 Children Get Only Part-Time Schooling Here.” Baltimore Evening Sun, December 8, 1950.
“City Inaction on Unsanitary Drains Scored.” Baltimore Sun, June 24, 1948.
“O'Donnell Heights Greets Roof-Climbing Phantom.” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 25, 1951.
“O'Donnell Heights Pupils in School.” Baltimore Evening Sun, January 8, 1946.
“'Phantom' Hunters Fined $10 Each.” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1951.
“'Phantom' Looms Atop School; Police Find Ventilation Pipe.” Baltimore Sun, July 27, 1951.
“Phantom Makes Himself Scarce.” Baltimore Sun, August 6, 1951.
“Phantom Prowler Terrorizes O'Donnell Heights Residents.” Baltimore Sun, July 25, 1951.
“Sherbow Imposes $25 Fines For Betting On Horses.” Baltimore Evening Sun, September 25, 1951.
“Third Turnover is On At O'Donnell Heights.” Baltimore Evening Sun, December 10, 1948.
“When the Phantom Roamed.” Baltimore Evening Sun, February 28, 1962.
Schneck, Robert Damon. The President's Vampire. San Antonio: Anomalist Books, 2005.
https://www.climatespy.com/climate/summary/united-states/maryland/baltimore-washington-intl/july/1951
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/10/spring-heeled-jack-in-america/
- 24-year-old Oceana Wardlaw Martin Snead is found in a bathtub in a nearly-vacant house in East Orange, New Jersey. The only other inhabitant, her aunt, claims she committed suicide. Was it suicide, murder, or a weird hybrid of the two?
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“Alienists Declare Mrs. Martin Insane.” New York Times, September 21, 1910.
“Back to Jail for Xmas.” Baltimore Sun, December 25, 1909.
“Bathtub Mystery No Murder, She Says,” New York Times, December 2, 1909.
“Chief Justice To Try Women.” New York Times, January 23, 1910.
“Claims Dead Girl Wrote Those Notes.” Buffalo Commercial, December 17, 1909.
“Dead in Bathtub.” Asbury Park Press, November 30, 1909.
“'Death Welcome,' Says Mrs. Martin.” Knoxville (TN) Sentinel, December 16, 1909.
“Declared A Foundling.” Baltimore Sun, December 18, 1909.
“Finds Mrs. Martin Insane.” New York Times, November 19, 1910.
“Fletcher Snead Found.” Baltimore Sun, December 17, 1909.
“Fletcher Snead's Son Will Claim Wardlaw Jewels.” Murfreesboro (TN) News-Journal, January 31, 1930.
“Grand Jury Has Snead Case.” New York Times, December 15, 1909.
“Jesse James' Lawyer Accused.” Kansas City Star, March 6, 1911.
“Jesse James' Lawyer Asks For Freedom.” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Evening News, December 10, 1929.
“Let Me Die, Mother Asks.” Kansas City Star, December 16, 1909.
“May Hold Bathtub Suspects Here.” New York Times, December 5, 1909.
“Miss Wardlaw Dies; Starved Herself.” New York Times, August 12, 1909.
“Miss Wardlaw Near Nervous Collapse.” New York Times, August 6, 1910.
“Mrs. Martin Charged With Snead Murder.” Lancaster (PA) Examiner, December 18, 1909.
“Mrs. Martin in Court.” Baltimore Sun, December 17, 1909.
“Mrs. Martin Fights.” Washington Evening Star, December 23, 1909.
“Mrs. Martin Pleads to Manslaughter.” New York Times, January 10, 1911.
“Mrs. Martin Raves As She is Sentenced.” New York Times, January 24, 1911.
“Mrs. Martin Snead May Be in Virginia.” New York Times, December 10, 1909.
“Mrs. Mary Snead Set Free.” New York Times, February 8, 1911.
“Mrs. Ocey Snead's Mother Dies in N.J. Madhouse.” York (PA) Daily, June 21, 1913.
“Mrs. Snead's Family Full of Fatalities.” New York Times, December 9, 1909.
“Mystery is Deep About the Murder of Ocey Snead.” Washington Times, December 12, 1909.
“Mystery Murder Case Revived By Jewel Discovery.” Chattanooga News, January 31, 1930.
“No Delay in Snead Case.” New York Times, August 13, 1910. “Ocey Snead Murder Case.” Sioux Falls (SD) Argus-Leader, December 16, 1909.
“Ocey Snead Trial April 11.” New York Times, January 30, 1910.
“Ocey Snead Was Drugged.” New York Times, January 21, 1910.
“Physician Finds Mrs. Martin Sane.” New York Times, November 24, 1910.
“Poison Mother Gave Killed Ocey Snead.” New York Times, January 22, 1911.
“Snead Case to Grand Jury To-day.” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, December 21, 1909.
“Snead Death Baffles.” Washington Post, December 12, 1909.
“Snead Mystery Complex Tangle.” Indianapolis Star, December 19, 1909.
“Snead's Brother Found.” New York Times, December 10, 1909.
“Starved Herself to Evade Prosecution.” St. Joseph (MO) News-Press, August 12, 1910.
“Stolen Gems Found, Revive Old Mystery.” Oakland Tribune, February 4, 1930.
“Talks of Suicide.” Topeka State Journal, December 16, 1909.
“Thief's Cold Comfort.” York (PA) Dispatch, June 24, 1911.
“Think Snead A Suicide.” Indiana (PA) Evening Gazette, January 10, 1910.
“Third Arrest in Snead Mystery.” Wilmington (NC) Morning Star, December 17, 1909.
“To Pass on Snead Note.” New York Times, December 10, 1909.
“Two Fletcher Sneads Mystify N.Y. Police.” New Castle (PA) Herald, December 17, 1909.
“Two More Arrests in Snead Murder.” New York Times, December 17, 1909.
“Wardlaw Sisters Will Stand Trial.” Owensboro (KY) Messenger, May 8, 1910.
Ziebold, Norman. Three Sisters in Black. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1968.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/sisters-black-murder-ocey-snead-1909-article-1.432667
https://www.murfreesboropost.com/community/fearless-confederate-died-mysteriously-in-nyc/article_eaf8ba36-cc9a-5b75-93a3-5295b2acf73d.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85942398/fletcher-wardlaw-snead
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/new-york-city/articles/a-city-ablaze-the-19th-century-confederate-plot-to-burn-new-york-city/
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/it-was-a-vast-and-fiendish-plot-the-confederate-attack-on-new-york-city
https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Oceana_Wardlaw_Martin_(1885-1909)
http://malefactorsregister.com/wp/does-this-black-dress-make-me-look-fat-2/
In 1855, in new-fallen snow in Devonshire, a trail of small hooflike footprints led for miles. Similar footprints have been found on several occasions, most notably during the 1909 Jersey Devil sightings. But what are these mysterious footprints?
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“Footprints in the Snow.” Barrow’s Worcester Journal, March 21, 1891.
“Mysterious Footmarks.” Nottinghamshire Guardian, March 1, 1855.
“Singular Animal.” London Times, March 14, 1840.
Busk, R.H. “Phenomenal Footprints in Snow, S. Devon.” Notes and Queries 7:8 (December 28, 1889).
–. “Phenomenal Footprints in the Snow, S. Devon.” Notes and Queries 7:9 (January 25, 1890).
Dash, Mike. “The Devil’s Hoofmarks: Source Material on the Great Devon Mystery of 1855.” Fortean Studies 1:1 (1994).
Freeman, Richard. “Other Historical Accounts of the Devil’s Footprints.” https://torridgeside.blogspot.com/2009/03/richard-freeman-other-historical.html
Gould, Rupert T. Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts. University Books: New Hyde Park, NY, 1965 ed.
https://issuu.com/landmarkpress/docs/welcome_to_perthshire_bedroom_folde
https://www.wideopenspaces.com/tell-difference-squirrel-rabbit-tracks/
The Canadian authorities put Earle Leonard Nelson on trial for the two Winnipeg murders, and he meets his eventual fate. There’s also discussion of his bizarre past, and some other crimes that may or may not be his handiwork.
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SOURCES
“Apron-String Murder Gives Police Puzzle.” Los Angeles Times, November 12, 1926.
“Buffalo to Move for Trial of Strangler.” Windsor (Ont.) Star, June 21, 1927.
“Chain of Evidence Against Nelson Welded.” Regina Leader-Press, November 3, 1927.
“Detectives Get New Clews To Carlson Slayer.” Oakland Tribune, March 27, 1920.
“Earle Nelson Sentenced to Hang Jan. 13.” Montreal Gazette, November 7, 1927.
“Girl Routs Stranger in Battle.” Oakland Tribune, March 30, 1920.
“Girl Slain Is Theory of Becker.” Oakland Tribune, March 19, 1920.
“’Gorilla Man’ Believed Bay Girl’s Slayer.” San Francisco Examiner, September 13, 1927.
“Insanity Trump Card in Nelson’s Defence.” Regina Leader-Press, November 4, 1927.
“Knife a Clue in 2 Murders.” Detroit Free Press, June 24, 1927.
“’Murder or Pneumonia?’ Ask Probers.” San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 1925.
“Nelson Guilty; Dies on Gallows on January 13th.” Calgary Herald, November 5, 1927.
“Nelson’s Trial Tragic, Swift Moving Drama.” Regina Leader-Press, November 4, 1927.
“New Mystery Stirs Probe in S.F. Murder.” San Francisco Examiner, October 3, 1926.
“Newark Murderer Left Cigarettes.” Brooklyn Standard-Union, August 10, 1926.
“Photo Proof of Beating By Slayer.” Oakland Tribune, March 23, 1920.
“Police Seek Friend of Slain Widow.” Oakland Tribune, October 2, 1926.
“Seek Clues in Murder of Apartment House Manager.” Colton (CA) Daily Courier, September 17, 1925.
“Slayer of Girl Is Still At Liberty.” Sacramento Bee, March 16, 1920.
“Thug Winds Gems Around Victim’s Neck.” San Francisco Examiner, August 24, 1925.
“Warrant Issued For ‘Gorilla Man’ At Philadelphia.” Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal, June 23, 1927.
“Wealthy Widow Found Killed in Apartment.” Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1926.
“Wealthy Woman Beaten to Death; Curtain Rod Used.” New York Daily News, May 12, 1926.
“Woman Slain By Strangler in Her Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1925.
“Woman, Victim of Strangling, Now Declared to Have Committed Suicide.” Los Angeles Evening Express, November 12, 1926.
“Woman’s Death From Natural Causes.” San Francisco Examiner, August 25, 1925.
“Young Woman Fought Assailant Until Her Breath Stopped.” Oakland Tribune, Match 15, 1920.
Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.
Tredgold, A.F. “The Definition and Diagnosis of Moral Imbecility.” British Journal of Medical Psychology 6:1 (1926). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1926.tb00622.x
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The police are on the trail of “Adrian Harris,” even as Earle Leonard Nelson leaves the West Coast behind for a cross-country killing spree at a considerably quickened pace. But his spree comes to an end in June, 1927...
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SOURCES
“Assailant Uses Telephone Cord.” Owensboro (KY) Messenger, June 3, 1927.
“Buffalo Murderer Eludes Detectives in All-day Search.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 1, 1927.
“Buffalo Police Cannot Find the Murderer.” Dunkirk (NY) Evening Observer, May 31, 1927.
“Butcher’s Helper Quizzed in Slaying.” Washington Evening Star, June 3, 1927.
“Clues Lacking in Dual Killing.” Detroit Free Press, June 7, 1927.
“Crime Puzzles Police.” York (PA) Dispatch, April 28, 1927.
“Detroit Police and a Double Murder.” Greenfield (IN) Daily Reporter, June 7, 1927.
“Dragnet Out For Strangler of Philadelphia Woman.” Scranton Times-Tribune, April 28, 1927.
“Fiend Suspect Tries to Enter W. Phila. Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 29, 1927.
“Find Strangler Placed Another Woman in Terror.” Davenport (IA) Daily Times, December 25, 1926.
“Find Woman Dead Behind Furnace.” Lincoln (NB) Journal Star, December 24, 1926.
“Finds Wife Slain in Home.” Kansas City Times, December 28, 1926.
“Funeral Rites For Mrs. Ida Ann Clements Held Friday Afternoon.” Hennessey (OK) Clipper, July 1, 1948.
“’Gorilla’ Kills Woman.” Arizona Republic, June 3, 1927.
“Housewives Murdered By ‘Phantom Strangler’.” New Castle (PA) News, January 3, 1927.
“Mrs. John Berard, Former Hennessey Woman, Murdered.” Hennessey (OK) Clipper, December 30, 1926.
“Murder in Chicago is Not Solved.” Sioux City Journal, June 5, 1927.
“No Sign of Fight Found By Police.” Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal, April 29, 1927.
“Police on Strangler’s Trail.” Winnipeg Tribune, June 13, 1927.
“Shirt Murder Still Baffles Bluffs Police.” Des Moines Register, December 26, 1926.
“Take Up Murder Theories.” Kansas City Star, December 29, 1926.
“Which Will Be Next City to Harbor Death Fiend Now Crossing Country?” Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal, January 6, 1927.
“Woman Thwarts Attempted Attack.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1927.
“Young Girl Seized By Phila. Strangler.” Camden Courier-Post, April 29, 1927.
Atlas of Kansas City, Missouri and Environs. Tuttle-Ayers-Woodward Co., 1925.
Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.
Throughout 1926 and 1927, a so-called "Dark Strangler" roamed up and down the West Coast and eventually across the country. Earle Leonard Nelson was one of the more prolific American serial killers, but his name isn't as well known as many others. In the first part, I'll look at his crimes on the West Coast.
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SOURCES
“6th Murder Laid To New Strangler.” Oakland Tribune, August 19, 1926.
“Admits Attack On Many Women.” Muncie (IN) Star-Press, August 13, 1926.
“Aged Victim, Choked, Ribs Crushed, is Found Dead.” San Francisco Examiner, June 11, 1926.
“Alameda Girl Routs Attacker.” Oakland Tribune, June 13, 1926.
“Bay Woman Will Bury Slain Sister.” Oakland Tribune, October 25, 1926.
“Cafe Owner of San Jose is Held As Strangler.” Sacramento Bee, October 20, 1926.
“Dark Killer Strangles S.F. Woman.” Oakland Tribune, November 19, 1926.
“Dark Strangler Suspect Laborer on Merced Ranch.” Modesto News-Herald, August 19, 1926.
“Dark Suspect Identified As Old Offender.” San Francisco Examiner, August 22, 1926.
“Death Witnesseses To Face Suspect.” Oakland Tribune, August 22, 1926.
“Finds Mother Murdered in Attic Trunk.” Salem (OR) Capital Journal, October 20, 1926.
“Fingerprints Only Clues in Strangling.” San Francisco Examiner, February 22, 1926.
“Foster Kin of Mystery Victim Finds Body in Attic.” San Francisco Examiner, February 21, 1926.
“Jewels Held As New Clew to Strangler.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 2, 1926.
“Key, Jewels Give Clue To Strangler.” Oakland Tribune, November 20, 1926.
“Landlady of Yoloan is Victim of Strangler.” Woodland Daily Democrat, March 6, 1926.
“Man Sentenced For Attack.” San Francisco Examiner, December 11, 1926.
“Maniac Held For Slaying; Doubt Sanity.” Albany (OR) Democrat-Herald, August 12, 1926.
“Mysterious Strangler Kills Woman in Portland.” Sacramento Bee, November 30, 1926.
“New Clues Spur Search For Slayer.” Oakland Tribune, August 17, 1926.
“Police Sure ‘Strangler’ Was Fulton St. Slayer,” San Francisco Examiner, November 20, 1926.
“Says Suspect Not Slayer of His Aunt.” Modesto News-Herald, June 16, 1926.
“S.F. Woman Attacked in Bed at Home.” San Francisco Examiner, June 14, 1926.
“S.F. Woman Strangled to Death.” Oakland Tribune, February 21, 1926.
“Spouse Finds Rich Woman Strangled.” San Francisco Examiner, March 3, 1926.
“Strangler Identified.” Pottsville (PA) Republican, August 12, 1926.
“’Strangler’ Kills S.F. Woman, 63.” Oakland Tribune, June 11, 1926.
“Third Woman Found Victim of Strangler.” San Francisco Examiner, March 5, 1926.
“Two Women Beat Off Strangler.” Oakland Tribune, March 6, 1926.
“Wealthy Widow Slain in Home.” Spokane Chronicle, November 25, 1926.
“Withers Case Jury Fails To Reach Verdict.” Roseburg (OR) News-Review, October 28, 1926.
“Woman Foils Strangler in Apartment House Attack.” San Francisco Examiner, March 14, 1926.
“Woman Found Strangled in San Jose Home.” Stockton Independent, March 3, 1926.
Graysmith, Robert. The Laughing Gorilla: The True Story of the Hunt for One of America’s First Serial Killers. New York: Berkley, 2009.
Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.
In the 1930s, a flying creature haunted Maryland, one whose name became almost synonymous with freakish beings. And thirty years later, another animal, one which was connected in some people’s minds to the previous one. These are most of the original accounts of these two creatures as described in the newspapers.
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SOURCES
“Bovalopus Scares Emmitsburg Folks.” Hagerstown Daily Mail, March 6, 1909.
“Bovalopus Snallygaster Swoops Down on Village.” Baltimore Evening Sun, November 25, 1932.
“Dwayyo Could Be A Modern Snallygaster.” Frederick News, December 3, 1965,
“Dwayyo Hunt Flops.” Frederick News, December 9, 1965.
“Dwayyo Hunt Planned.” Frederick News, December 6, 1965.
“Dwayyo Hunt Tonight.” Frederick News, December 8, 1965.
“Dwayyo Monster is Still Running Loose.” Frederick News, December 1, 1965.
“Elusive Dwayyo Still Uncaptured.” Frederick News, December 2, 1965.
“Hark! Ghastly Bovalopus Terrorizes Mountain Folk.” Camden (NJ) Morning Post, November 26, 1932.
“John Barleycorn Ends Career of Snallygaster.” Baltimore Evening Sun, December 1, 1932.
“Marylanders Oil Their Guns To Hunt That Danged Bovalopus.” Pittsburgh (PA) Press, November 27, 1932.
“Mysterious Dwayyo On Loose in County.” Frederick News, November 29, 1965.
“Saw the Vampire.” Cumberland Evening Times, February 8, 1909.
“Snallygaster Made First Boonsboro Visit Back in 1909.” Baltimore Evening Sun, November 25, 1932.
Opsasnick, Mark. The Maryland Bigfoot Digest: A Survey of Creature Sightings in the Free State. Xlibris, 2004.
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/dwayyo/
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/snallygaster/
Called a “notorious quack,” Dr. Francis Tumblety was a peddler of fake medicines, an abortionist, part of the Lincoln assassination plot, or even Jack the Ripper – depending on who you believe. We’ll look at his career and crimes and whether or not he’s even viable as a Ripper suspect.
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SOURCES
Buffalo (NY) Evening Post, July 25, 1856.
London Times, December 1, 1873.
New York Herald, February 8, 1869.
Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser, April 4, 1881.
Saint John (New Brunswick) Morning Freeman, October 16, 1860.
“Dr. Tumblety.” Buffalo Evening Courier and Republic, March 13, 1862.
“Dr. Tumblety.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 1888.
“Dr. Tumblety’s Case.” Montreal Pilot, September 25, 1857.
“Dr. Tumblety Has Flown.” New York World, December 6, 1888.
“Dr. Tumblety in New York.” St. Thomas (Ontario) Weekly Dispatch, March 28, 1861.
“Dr. Tumblety Kills A Man and Runs Away.” Detroit Free Press, October 7, 1860.
“Dr. Tumblety Talks.” Troy (AL) Messenger, February 7, 1889.
“Eccentricities of Dr. Tumblety.” Pittsburgh Dispatch, June 6, 1889.
“Fortune Won By Herbs Root of Bitter Fight.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 28, 1903.
“Herbs, Salts and Cider.” Brooklyn Eagle, April 27, 1890.
“Inquest.” Saint John (New Brunswick) Morning Freeman, September 29, 1860.
“Jack is Back.” Lansing (MI) State Journal, November 10, 2002.
“Law Intelligence.” Montreal Pilot, September 28, 1857.
“Legal Medicine – Tumblety Affair.” Le Courier du Canada, November 4, 1857.
“Legal Medicine – Continuation of the Report of Mr. LaRue.” Le Courier du Canada, November 6, 1857.
“Mendacity of Quacks.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. 91 (1875).
“Police.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 6, 1864.
“Police Court.” Montreal Pilot, September 26, 1857.
“Recollections of a Police Magistrate.” Canadian Magazine, vol. 54 (November 1919 – April 1920).
“The ‘American Doctor’ and His Patients.” Liverpool Mercury, January 19, 1875.
“The Arrest of Dr. Tumblety, the Indian Herb Doctor, on a Charge of Attempting to Procure an Abortion.” Montreal Pilot, September 23, 1857.
“The Assassination.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 4, 1865.
“The Case of Mr. Tumblety.” Montreal Pilot, September 24, 1857.
“The ‘Eccentric’ Dr. Twomblety.” New York World, November 19, 1888.
“The Indian Doctor in Court.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 10, 1864.
“The Missing Tumblety.” Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, December 3, 1888.
“The Search for the Whitechapel Murderer.” Pall Mall Gazette, December 31, 1888.
“The Tumblety Case.” Montreal Pilot, September 30, 1857.
“The Whitechapel Murders.” Quebec Daily Mercury, November 22, 1888.
“To the Editor of the Pilot.” Montreal Pilot, September 16, 1857.
“Tumblety Arrested.” New York Evening World, June 5, 1889.
“Tumblety is in the City.” New York World, December 3, 1888.
“Tumblety is Missing.” New York World, December 2, 1888.
“Watch Him.” St.Louis Evening Star-Sayings, December 3, 1888.
Riordan, Timothy B. Prince of Quacks: The Notorious Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, Charlatan and Jack the Ripper Suspect. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2009.
Shelley, Thomas J. “Twentieth Century American Catholicism and Irish Americans.” In Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey, eds.).
Tumblety, Francis. A Few Passages in the Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, the Indian Herb Doctor. Cincinnati: Published by the Author, 1866.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Caine
https://stevenhager.net/2014/09/27/charles-dunham-is-a-key-to-the-lincoln-assassination/
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-fenian-invasion-of-canada
Sometime around the middle of the First Century AD, the Ninth Legion of the Roman army completely disappears from all records. In the oldest story I've yet covered on the podcast, I'll take a look at the known history of the Ninth Legion, as well as the theories on what happened to it.
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SOURCES
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Mantel, Hugo. “The Causes of the Bar Kokba Revolt.” The Jewish Quarterly Review 58:3 (January 1968).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcomannic_Wars
Cities during wartime often eliminate outdoor lighting, and severely limit indoor lighting, to cut down on the effectiveness of air raids. Most famous of these blackouts are those utilized in Britain during the two World Wars, and particularly in London during the German raids of the Blitz. The Australian government used a similar tactic to combat Japanese air raids, though these restrictions were eased in the middle of 1942. Around that time, a killer prowled the streets, taking advantage of the darkened conditions.
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SOURCES
“Albert Park Mystery.” Melbourne Age, May 8, 1942.
“Another Woman Murdered.” Melbourne Argus, May 11, 1942.
“Charge Against U.S. Soldier.” Melbourne Age, June 8, 1942.
“Hunt for Killer of Woman.” Melbourne Argus, May 13, 1942.
“Inquiries Into Death of Woman.” Melbourne Argus, May 6, 1942.
“Murder Clue Sought.” Melbourne Argus, May 22, 1942.
“Murder Inquiry Continued.” Melbourne Argus, May 19, 1942.
“Murdered Bendigo Woman.” Riverine Herald, May 12, 1942.
“Mystery Death of Woman.” Melbourne Argus, May 5, 1942.
“Sanity Tests of U.S. Soldier Completed.” Melbourne Argus, July 11, 1942.
“Signed Confession By Leonski Alleged.” Melbourne Age, July 14, 1942.
“Spring St. Murder Mystery.” Melbourne Argus, May 14, 1942.
“The Parkville Tragedy.” Melbourne Age, May 21, 1942.
“Woman Murdered in Melb. Suburbs.” Border Morning Mail, May 4, 1942.
“Woman's Body in Doorway.” Melbourne Age, May 11, 1942.
“Woman's Death Puzzling Police.” Brisbane Telegraph, May 4, 1942.
Darian-Smith, Kate. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939-1945. Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1990.
Schechter, Harold. Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of. New York: Ballantine, 2012.
Shaw, Ian W. Murder at Dusk: How US Soldier and Smiling Psychopath Eddie Leonski Terrorised Wartime Melbourne. Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2018.
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https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/look-for-a-guy-who-walks-on-his-hands-melbourne-stranglers-cryptic-clue-for-police/news-story/bd65e24e5714361c91c3151cf8ee791d
In 1889, a lonely farmhouse in southern Quebec was afflicted by a series of ghostly manifestations, which seem to be centered on a Scottish orphan girl living in the home.
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SOURCES
“Dagg's demon.” Ottawa Journal, November 25, 1889.
“Dagg's dupes.” Ottawa Journal, November 29, 1889.
“Dinah a ventriloquist.” Ottawa Journal, November 29, 1889.
“Is it Beelzebub?” Vancouver Daily World, December 5, 1889.
“Mayor Geo. Dagg of Portage passes.” Ottawa Citizen, May 30, 1938.
“Mysterious noises in home had whole country on edge.” Ottawa Citizen, March 18, 1939.
“Outstanding personalities of the Ottawa district.” Ottawa Citizen, June 29, 1935.
“This beats them all.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 13, 1890.
“Remarkable spontaneous manifestations.” Light: A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research (December 28, 1889).
Lackner, Chris. “The strange ghost that spooked Shawville.” Ottawa Citizen, November 18, 2014.
Playfair, Guy Lyon. This House Is Haunted. Guildford: White Crow Press, 2011.
Thormahlen, Judy. “Revived Shawville ghost mystery divides community into two camps.” Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 1959.
Wilson, Colin. Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Destructive Haunting. Llewellyn, 2009.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176738034/george-dagg
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On November 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma was stabbed and killed among the bookshelves of the Pattee Library at Penn State University. 50 years later, the case remains unsolved, with the main suspect having died in 2002.
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SOURCES
“5 refused help, says girl who found slain coed.” New York Daily News, December 1, 1969.
“Beaten coed said improved slightly.” Port Clinton (OH) News-Herald, December 2, 1969.
“Clarion coed admits wounds self-inflicted.” Franklin News-Herald, December 17, 1969.
“Clarion coed slashed.” New Castle News, December 4, 1969.
“Co-ed knifing baffles police.” Oberlin (OH) Review, December 5, 1969.
“Coed buried while slayer hunt continues.” Port Huron (MI) Times-Herald, December 3, 1969.
“No evidence of an intruder at Clarion.” Kane Republican, December 11, 1969.
“Oberlin coed 'fair' in vicious knife attack.” Dover (OH) Daily Reporter, December 1, 1969.
“Ohio U co-ed found beaten.” Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal, November 25, 1969.
“Out of hospital.” Akron (OH) Beacon-Journal, December 11, 1969.
“Probe of attack being continued.” Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, December 12, 1969.
“Robert G. Durgy.” Lansing (MI) State Journal, December 22, 1969.
“Six killed on state highways.” Lansing (MI) State Journal, December 21, 1969.
“Stab death hunt tries drawings.” Pittsburgh Press, December 5, 1969.
“Stabbing of college co-ed in Arb labelled as attempted murder.” Oberlin (OH) Review, December 2, 1969.
Glembocki, Vicki. “Who Killed Betsy Aardsma?” The Penn Stater, September/October, 2009. https://pennstatermag.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aardsma_so_09.pdf
Hogge, Erin. “Murder in the Stacks: 50 Years Later, Still No Answers.” The Daily Collegian, December 10, 2019. https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/article_b6280ed6-1a18-11ea-a966-2b1ac6ebcdcb.html
Sherwood, Derek. Who Killed Betsy? Uncovering Penn State University's Most Notorious Unsolved Crime. Pine Grove Press, 2011.
Williams-Herrman, Elizabeth. “Haunted Libraries of Pennsylvania.” Supernatural Lore of Pennsylvania (Thomas White, ed.). Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014.
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Shortly after the signing of the treaty of Schönnbrun in October of 1809, bringing an end to Austrian involvement in the Fifth Napoleonic War, a British official on a mission to the Austrian court vanished without a trace. He was in Germany, on his way back to British territories, and while examining his horses at an inn near Berlin, he walked around to the other side of his horses – and disappeared, never to be seen again. Or that's the way it's usually told.
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“A century old mystery.” London Observer, December 18, 1910.
“A mysterious crime.” Hull Packet and East Riding Times, September 26, 1862.
Baring-Gould, Sabine. Historic Oddities and Strange Events. London: Methuen & Co., 1889.
Dash, Mike. “The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst.” Fortean Times 54 (Summer 1990).
Fraser, Mary Crawford. Storied Italy. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1915.
Lang, Andrew. The All Sorts of Stories Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.
Machen, Arthur. Dreads and Drolls. New York: Alfred A, Knopf, 1927.
https://www.svz.de/lokales/spurlos-in-perleberg-verschwunden-id4680756.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Alexandre_de_Launay,_comte_d%27Antraigues
http://www.notableabodes.com/abode-search-results/abode-details/139177/dantraigues-27-the-terrace-barnes-london
In December 1811, two households in the borough of Wapping, one of the docks districts of east London were annihilated in a pair of brutal and apparently motiveless crimes. After the crimes, the murderer was disposed of in a novel and unusual fashion. Twenty years later, they were described in Thomas De Quincey's satirical essay “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” as “the sublimest and most entire in their excellence that ever were committed.”
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Caledonian Mercury, September 21, 1812.
Ipswich Journal, December 28, 1811.
“Another horrid murder!” Bury and Norwich Post, December 25, 1811.
“Another massacre – coroner's inquest on the dead bodies of Mr. Williamson, and family.” Leeds Mercury, December 28, 1811.
“Important examination.” Leeds Mercury, December 28, 1811.
“Murder of Mr. Marr and family.” Caledonian Mercury, December 14, 1811.
“Murder of Mr. Marr and family.” Hull Packet and East Riding Times, December 17, 1811.
“Murder of Mr. Marr's family in Ratcliff Highway.” London Observer, December 15, 1811.
“Murders in New Gravel Lane.” London Morning Chronicle, December 24, 1811.
“Murders in New Gravel Lane, &c.” London Times, December 24, 1811.
“The late murder in Ratcliffe Highway – examination of suspected persons.” Jackson's Oxford Journal, December 21, 1811.
“The late murders.” Jackson's Oxford Journal, January 4, 1812.
“The Marr's murder.” Exeter Flying Post, June 1, 1815.
“Williams, the murderer.” Caledonian Mercury, January 4, 1812.
“Williamson's murder.” Jackson's Oxford Journal, February 1, 1811.
De Quincey, Thomas. “Postcript to 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.'” On Murder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. https://books.google.com/books?id=sww0kGQ5AFkC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=postscript+to+murder+as+one+of+the+fine+arts&source=bl&ots=LZhKTGKaaB&sig=ACfU3U11QoFgOth13xjI_QQr-qRjmWEZKg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdwPKYhNrnAhUaknIEHWPnDdE4FBDoATAAegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=postscript%20to%20murder%20as%20one%20of%20the%20fine%20arts&f=false
The Literary Panorama, Vol. XI. London: Cox and Baylis, 1812. https://books.google.com/books?id=UZLfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA359&lpg=PA359&dq=Roxburgh+Castle+(1809+ship)&source=bl&ots=KxKyfUQM-l&sig=ACfU3U1r4OtmDCpT60PvubrRTDn9PqSp2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjX7tWbq9nnAhVslXIEHdV7DUYQ6AEwBXoECA0QAQ#v=onepage&q=Roxburgh%20Castle%20(1809%20ship)&f=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcliff_Highway_murders
https://www.murdermap.co.uk/historical-murders/mapping-the-ratcliffe-highway-murders/
http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_8.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxburgh_Castle_(1809_ship)
The HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus disappeared on the Franklin Expedition searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. Six years later, a ship bound for Canada from Ireland saw two ships on an iceberg off Newfoundland. Were they the lost Franklin Expedition?
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Barr, William and Glenn M. Stein. “Frederick J. Krabbé, last man to see HMS Investigator afloat, May 1854.” 2017. https://www.hakluyt.com/PDF/krabbe.pdf
Carney, Peter. “Further Light on the Source of the Lead in Human Remains from the 1845 Franklin Expedition.” 2016. https://www.hakluyt.com/PDF/carney_franklin.pdf
Gould, Rupert T. Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts. University Books: New Hyde Park (NY). 1964 ed.
O'Farrell, Joe. “The Search for HM Ships 'Erebus' and 'Terror'.” 2008. http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/Search_for_H_M_Ships.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)
Lucille Miller was a California housewife who, in 1964, was accused of murdering her dentist husband in a fiery accident on a lonely road through a lemon grove. The ensuing case is one of the most muddled and morally-unclear I have ever come across.
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“Another death factor in murder trial.” Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, December 7, 1964.
“Attorney Hayton tells trial of affair with Mrs. Miller.” Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1965.
“Attorney to ask federal hearing in Miller case.” Redlands Daily Facts, December 10, 1964.
“Attorneys keep vigil in auto fire death case.” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1964.
“Civil rights of arrested woman said violated.” Eureka Humboldt Standard, December 16, 1964.
“Coroner declares Dr. Miller murdered.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 16, 1964.
“Cremation in a car; murder quiz of wife.” San Francisco Examiner, October 11, 1964.
“Decision due today on dentist's auto death.” Los Angeles Times, October 13, 1964.
“Defense presses for Mrs. Miller's release.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 23, 1964.
“Dentist dies in auto blaze; wife arrested.” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1964.
“Dentist dies in flaming car, wife held.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 9, 1964.
“Dentist's wife indicted after jury hearing.” Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 21, 1964.
“Dentist's wife indicted for car fire death.” Los Angeles Times, October 21, 1964.
“Exam indicates suspect pregnant.” Santa Maria Times, December 21, 1964.
“Hearing for wife held for murder.” Eureka Humboldt Standard, October 14, 1964.
“Miller trial loses juror; 'discharged.'” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965.
“Motel romance loveless on his part, Hayton says.” Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1965.
“Mother of three faces indictment.” Ukiah Daiy Journal, October 20, 1964.
“Mother to go on trial.” Roseville Press-Tribune, November 5, 1964.
“Mrs. Miller arraigned in dentist's car death.” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1964.
“Mrs. Miller loses another freedom bid.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 17, 1964.
“Mrs. Miller to enter plea on Friday.” Redlands Daily Facts, October 28, 1964.
“Mrs. Miller's defense may seek trial delay.” Los Angeles Times, November 30, 1964.
“Murder charges filed against Mrs. Miller.” Redlands Daily Facts, October 13, 1964.
“New trial scheduled.” Hanford Sentinel, December 9, 1964.
“New trial set Jan. 11 in Miller murder case.” Redlands Daily Facts, December 8, 1964.
Hartsfield, Jack. “Attorneys clash during Miller trial arguments.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965.
─. “Debbie Miller, friends take witness stand.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 10, 1965.
─. “Doctor Miller's funeral first quiet in case.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 16, 1964.
─. “Foley tears into Turner and Mr. Hayton.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965.
─. “Lucille Miller may gain freedom.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 6, 1972.
─. “Lucille Miller's 5-year fight for freedom.” Ontario Daily Report, October 18, 1970.
─. “Miller murder trial goes to jury today.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 2, 1965.
─. “Mrs. Miller's murder trial opens tomorrow.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 1, 1964.
─. “Turner claims defense using double talk.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 2, 1965.
─. “Turner says Mrs. Miller's story baloney.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965.
─. “Uproar sweeps court as verdict announced.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 6, 1965.
─. “Was wife of S.B. attorney murdered?” San Bernardino County Sun, December 5, 1964.
Didion, Joan. “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream.” The Literature of Reality (Gay Talese & Barbara Lounsberry, eds.). New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
Hertel, Howard. “Mrs. Miller takes witness stand to deny killing mate.” Los Angeles Times, February 17, 1965.
Hertel, Howard and Henry Sutherland. “Mrs. Miller had two love affairs, prosecutor implies.” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1965.
─. “Mrs. Miller's fate rests with jury.” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1965.
Miller, Debra J. “A Mother's Crime.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-02-tm-dreams14-story.html
Murphy, Mike. “Supreme Court to review Lucille Miller's S.B. trial.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 5, 1967.
"People v. Miller (1966).” https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2d/245/112.html
Yetzer, Carl. “Policewoman 'plant' may get new trial for Lucille Miller.” San Bernardino County Sun, June 8, 1969.
A ghost haunts the railroad connecting Brooklyn and Coney Island in August 1894, but it soon proves to be... not what was expected.
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Brooklyn Standard-Union, May 28, 1894.
Brooklyn Eagle, March 7, 1943.
“A.D. Mapledoram.” Brooklyn Citizen, March 28, 1909.
“All lies within the ken of Mr. Kennedy's pen.” Brooklyn Eagle, March 7, 1943.
“Funeral of Margaret Barning.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 10, 1894.
“Ghost – beware!” Brooklyn Standard-Union, August 14, 1894.
“Ghost hunt a-wheel.” New York Evening World, August 13, 1894.
“Her identity is a mystery.” New York Evening World, August 6, 1894.
“Her identity known.” New York Evening World, August 8, 1894.
“Mapleton slights its ghost.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 11, 1894.
“Mapleton's ghost out again.” New York Evening World, August 20, 1894.
“Mapleton's shy ghost.” New York Sun, August 20, 1894.
“Mr. Kelly's queer statement.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 9, 1894.
“More mysterious than ever.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 7, 1894.
“Recognized at the morgue.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 8, 1894.
“Rides royally.” Brooklyn Citizen, July 8, 1894.
“Scientists look for a ghost.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 22, 1894.
“The ghost cornered.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 28, 1894.
“The ghost seen again.” New York Sun, August 13, 1894.
“The ghost walks again.” Brooklyn Standard-Union, August 20, 1894.
“The great ghost hunt.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 23, 1894.
“Three shots at the ghost.” New York Sun, August 17, 1894.
“To be interred in Jersey.” Brooklyn Citizen, August 9, 1894.
“Turned out to be a pig.” Brooklyn Standard-Union, August 13, 1894.
“Walks about the city.” Brooklyn Eagle, August 26, 1894.
Heffernan, John A. “How two reporters laid Mapleton ghost.” Brooklyn Times-Union, July 21, 1930.
https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Early_Rapid_Transit_in_Brooklyn,_1878-1913
http://and-now-the-screaming-starts.blogspot.com/2009/08/stuff-portrait-of-victorian-ghost.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Drinker_Cope
Small-town politics and old-fashioned racism come into play when the household of an Indian vicar in Great Wyrley, in Staffordshire, England is targeted for harassment. In 1903, a series of animal mutilations and maiming afflict the area and the vicar's son, a solicitor by the name of George Edalji, is convicted.
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“A stupid hoax.” London Standard, July 26, 1895.
“Cattle-maiming – fresh atrocities at Great Wyrley.” The Guardian, August 28, 1907.
“Cattle-maiming – the new situation at Great Wyrley.” The Guardian, August 29, 1907.
“Edalji is restored.” Washington Post, December 1, 1907.
“Extraordinary hoax.” Essex County Standard, August 24, 1895.
“Labourer sent to penal servitude.” London Times, November 7, 1934. https://www.casebook.org/press_reports/times/19341107.html
“'Poison pen' letters.” The Guardian, November 7, 1934.
“Strange persecution of a clergyman.” Birmingham Daily Post, January 20, 1893.
“Strange persecution of a clergyman.” Leicester Chronicle and Leicestershire Mercury, April 1, 1893.
“The Edalji case – a mysterious letter from Walsall.” The Observer, January 20, 1907.
“The Edalji case – prisoner to be released this week.” The Observer, October 7, 1906.
“The maiming outrages – an arrest at Wolverhampton.” The Guardian, September 6, 1907.
“The renewed Wyrley outrages.” Manchester Guardian, April 1, 1904.
“The Staffordshire maiming outrages.” The Penny Illustrated Paper, November 14, 1903.
“The Wyrley outrages.” The Guardian, September 7, 1907.
Costello, Peter. Conan Doyle, Detective: The True Crimes Investigated by the Creator of Sherlock Holmes. London: Constable & Robinson, 2006.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. “The Case of Mr. George Edalji.” New York Times, February 2-3, 1907.
Risinger, D. Michael. “Boxes in Boxes: Julian Barnes, Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Edalji Case.” International Commentary on Evidence 4:2 (2006).
Weaver, Gordon. Conan Doyle and the Parson's Son: The George Edalji Case. Cambridge: Vanguard Press, 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapurji_Edalji
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/18/arthur-conan-doyle-set-up-by-police-fabricated-letters
https://britishheritage.com/features/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-case-of-george-edalji
Charles Fort related the story of how an elderly couple named the Krings were murdered and their house burned, and a number of mysterious bodies found nearby. Discussed here is the story of what actually happened. Also: unreported facts in the cases of the 1909 sightings of the Jersey Devil in Bristol, PA and a possible other interpretation of the famous Houston Batman.
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Austin American-Statesman, June 19, 1953.
Bucks County Gazette, July 4, 1901; January 30, 1902.
Perkasie Central News, July 2, 1908; April 22, 1909; November 25, 1918.
“Attacker of 12 women believed held.” Brownsville (TX) Herald, October 14, 1953.
“Beautiful ex-model said suicide victim.” Waco Tribune-Herald, July 4, 1953.
“Bellaire mugger strikes again.” Odessa (TX) American, February 26, 1953.
“Bellaire phantom suspect caught.” Mexia (TX) Daily News, October 14, 1953.
“Bristol dealers are acquitted.” Bucks County Gazette, May 22, 1908.
“Bristol liquor dealers arrested.” Bucks County Gazette, February 28, 1908.
“Cambria County mysteries.” Altoona Tribune, February 4, 1892.
“Death in the flames.” Altoona Tribune, January 29, 1892.
“Democrats to have censors for candidates.” Bristol Daily Courier, March 9, 1915.
“'Devil prints' in Bristol.” Bucks County Gazette, January 22, 1909.
“Houston area love bandit is sought by dogs.” Waco News-Tribune, May 21, 1952.
“Houston girl fights off night attacker.” Lubbock Evening Journal, February 5, 1953.
“Lynn pleaded guilty.” Bucks County Gazette, February 28, 1908.
“Man eludes pair in chase.” Lubbock Evening Journal, May 21, 1953.
“Mysterious 'Batman' seen by five persons in Houston.” El Paso Times, June 19, 1953.
“Phantom prowlers sought by officers at Dallas, Houston.” Lubbock Morning Avalanche, September 30, 1953.
“Purse snatcher is sought at Houston.” Lubbock Evening Journal, October 23, 1953.
“Slashed with a knife.” Bucks County Gazette, January 23, 1902.
“Suspected mugger held in Houston.” Mexia (TX) Daily News, March 9, 1953.
“The borough conventions.” Bucks County Gazette, February 11, 1892.
“Two horses killed.” Bucks County Gazette, November 6, 1908.
“Woman foils bold attacker in Houston.” McAllen (TX) Monitor, June 11, 1953.
Fort, Charles. The Complete Books of Charles Fort. New York: Dover, 1974.
Gerhard, Ken. Encounters With Flying Humanoids. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2013.
Kernell, Samuel and Michael P. McDonald. "Congress and America's Political Development: the Transformation of the Post Office from Patronage to Service." American Journal of Political Science 42:3 (July, 1999).
McCloy, James F. and Ray Miller, Jr. The Jersey Devil. Moorestown, NJ: Middle Atlantic Press, 1976.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37244885/samuel-kring
https://walterhutskyjr.com/beckys-grave-the-truth-revealed/
https://www.tribdem.com/news/laurel-highlands-haunts-legends-swirl-around-young-woman-s-grave/article_dccdb3d4-bc59-11e7-a6a2-3fac73a4ba05.html
The net closes around Robert Irwin who, it turns out, is far more volatile than anyone knew. His is actually a rather sad story of mental illness, criminality, and someone who was essentially doomed to lead the life he did before he was even born.
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“Comb city for 'mad slayer' of model.” New York Daily News, April 6, 1937.
“Cops think Gedeon killer made mask's of model's face.” Long Branch (NJ) Daily Record, April 8, 1937.
“Eagle crime tipster used Irwin's alias.” Brooklyn Eagle, April 7, 1937.
“Guilt of Irwin found in check of fingerprints.” Brooklyn Eagle, April 7, 1937.
“Hunt queer-acting man at Woodstock.” Rutland (VT) Daily Herald, April 7, 1937.
“It's a cinch! Amateurs find Irwin in 5 places.” Brooklyn Eagle, April 6, 1937.
“Killer carved soap statue in model's home.” Des Moines Tribune, April 8, 1937.
“New clue places murder suspect on M&M liner.” Rutland (VT) Daily Herald, April 7, 1937.
“Ronnie's fiance sleepless, fearing death; going abroad.” Brooklyn Eagle, April 6, 1937.
“Sculptor confesses to Easter triple slaying.” Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA), June 27, 1937.
“Student wore masks, Gedeon informs police.” Brooklyn Eagle, April 6, 1937.
“Thinks Irwin is suicide.” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times-Leader, April 9, 1937.
“Triple killing suspect seen in mountains.” Brooklyn Eagle, April 8, 1937.
Reynolds, Quentin. Courtroom: The Story of Samuel S. Leibowitz. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1950.
Schechter, Harold. The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, The Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation. New York: Little A, 2014.
https://hoover.blogs.archives.gov/2016/07/14/lou-henry-hoover-and-the-mad-sculptor/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival
On Easter Sunday, 1937 the bodies of model Veronica Gedeon, her mother, and a man named Frank Byrnes were found dead in an apartment on East 53rd Street in New York City. Suspicion quickly falls on the father – but did he actually have anything to do with it?
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“Artist's model, mother, and male roomer murdered in Manhattan home.” Nassau Daily Review-Star, March 29, 1937.
“Divinity school student sought in Gedeon probe.” Nassau Daily Review-Star. April 5, 1937.
“Gedeon's reaction watched as he views bodies of slain.” Nassau Daily Review-Star, April 1, 1937.
“Private Larry O'Toole's fine tribute to Chief U.S. Grant.” Potsdam Junction Commercial Advertiser, April 7, 1942.
“Slain girl's father wears out police as they grill him on triple murder.” Washington Court House (OH) Record-Herald, April 2, 1937.
“Small piece of cloth found at scene of triple murder may link father to crime.” Ogdensburg Advance-News, April 2, 1937.
Schechter, Harold. Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of. New York: Ballantine, 2012.
—. The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, The Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation. New York: Little A, 2014.
https://immigrationtounitedstates.org/560-hungarian-immigrants.html
In November 1945, the rural Sheep Hill district in northern Chester County just south of Pottstown, Pennsylvania was prowled by a mysterious beast capable of gigantic leaps and screams. And in March 1973, another animal appeared and killed animals at Ringing Hill in Pottsgrove Township. Also: the Wild Man of Chestnut Hill, the “Jersey Madman,” the Dorlan Devil, and the Coatesville “Roof Rabbit.”
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“All around the town,” Pottstown Mercury, November 15, 1945.
“All around the town,” Pottstown Mercury, November 17, 1945.
“Body of fox solves mystery.” Pottstown Mercury, November 7, 1945.
“Buzzing.” Pottstown Mercury, April 3, 1973.
“Casualties mount to four as mystery animal continues to evade posses at Sheep Hill.” Pottstown Mercury. November 14, 1945.
“Creature quiet, no sightings are reported.” Pottstown Mercury, March 20, 1973.
“Dorlan's devil cuts up didos.” Pottstown Mercury, July 30, 1937.
“Evidence of creature is found.” Pottstown Mercury, March 19, 1973.
“Expert says creature belongs to dog family.” Pottstown Mercury, March 30, 1973.
“Game protector declares 'terror' has moved away; far, far away.” Pottstown Mercury, November 21, 1945.
“Hunt for Montie the Monster outdoes Gettysburg battle, says alarmed Sheep Hiller.” Harrisburg Evening News, November 5, 1945.
“'Jersey Devil' is captured and proves silver fox not much bigger than tom-cat.” Harrisburg Evening News, August 21, 1937.
“Man believes 'The Thing' is his lost dog.” Pottstown Mercury, November 17, 1945.
“Mangled rabbit found in borough.” Pottstown Mercury, April 6, 1973.
“Monster cause of excitement in New Jersey.” Shamokin News-Dispatch, January 23, 1932.
“Montie the Monster object of search near Pottstown.” Dunkirk (NY) Evening Observer, November 15, 1945.
“Mysterious animal is finally seen.” Pottstown Mercury, November 9, 1945.
“Mysterious beast is sought in Chester Co.” Lebanon Daily News, February 15, 1939.
“Mysterious creature believed back in vicinity of Ringing Hill.” Pottstown Mercury, March 29, 1973.
“North Coventry mystery still unsolved.” Pottstown Mercury, November 8, 1945.
“Posse of 40 men fails to locate 'crying cat.'” Pottstown Mercury, November 10, 1945.
“Strange animal is roaming in North Coventry.” Pottstown Mercury, November 6, 1945.
“There's a glowakus loose down in Coatesville; durn thing has foot-long neck and screams.” Reading Times, February 15, 1939.
“Turkey lures Norco animal, cries heard.” Pottstown Mercury, November 19, 1945.
“Two persons injured on 'panther' hunt.” Pottstown Mercury, November 12, 1945.
Binder, John K. “Game protector and police act to prevent hunting of beast.” Pottstown Mercury, November 15, 1945.
—. “North Coventry mystery animal may be a puma, resident says.” Pottstown Mercury, November 13, 1945.
—. “Search for mystery animal is spurred on by fresh tracks.” Pottstown Mercury, November 16, 1945.
Kessler, Barbara. “Creature sightings, incidents increase.” Pottstown Mercury, March 16, 1973.
—. “Mystery beast stalks Pottsgroves.” Pottstown Mercury, March 15, 1973.
—. “Speculation grows: what could creature be?” Pottstown Mercury, March 17, 1973.
McCloy, James E. and Ray Miller, Jr. Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil. Moorestown, NJ: Middle Atlantic Press, 1998.
Pitchford, Charles. “Creature changes location, attacks poodle.” Pottstown Mercury, March 24, 1973.
Renner, Timothy. Bigfoot in Pennsylvania. CreateSpace, 2017.
https://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/you-ask-youker-was-the-last-wild-panther-in-pennsylvania-shot-in-berks-county
https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/59/messages/861.html
https://www.pgc.pa.gov/Education/WildlifeNotesIndex/Pages/Fisher.aspx
Ambrose J. Small was a wealthy theater manager who disappeared without a trace on the evening of December 2, 1919 near one of his theaters in Toronto, Ontario. There was no shortage of theories and possibilities as to what happened. Was it the long-suffering wife? The obsessive, clingy mistress? The secretary who had robbed him? Or someone else?
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Lethbridge Herald, January 14, 1925.
“$65,000 was set aside to trace Ambrose Small.” Montreal Gazette, November 13, 1922.
“Allege effort to blackmail in Small case.” Regina Leader-Post, June 5, 1922.
“Ambrose Small case confession called forgery.” Winnipeg Tribune, November 25, 1936.
“Ambrose Small not man found by detectives.” Montreal Gazette, August 16, 1921.
“Arrested when he bared his head.” Boston Post, December 5, 1920.
“Bares torture in kidnapping of Canadian.” Santa Ana Register, August 15, 1921.
“Believe Small is alive.” Ottawa Citizen, November 25, 1920.
“Doughty and detective are on their way.” Montreal Gazette, November 25, 1920.
“Doughty says absconded when panic stricken.” Vancouver Sun, December 31, 1920.
“Doughty sent up for trial, theft charge.” Ottawa Citizen, December 31, 1920.
“Ex-janitor and wife to testify against Doughty.” Montreal Gazette, November 26, 1920.
“Excavation of dump for Small body planned.” Winnipeg Tribune, November 14, 1928.
“Former Small maid gone from asylum.” Ottawa Journal, December 19, 1924.
“Hoping arrest of Doughty to solve mystery.” Ottawa Citizen, November 25, 1920.
“Hotelman would see detective.” Montreal Gazette, June 26, 1922.
“Is Small in bay?” Saskatoon Daily Star, April 5, 1922.
“Lost millionaire dead to world but legally alive to law.” Spokane Spokesman-Review, April 22, 1923.
“Man exploited as lost millionaire unknown cripple.” Des Moines Tribune, August 16, 1921.
“Mystery gives way to strange acts of sleuth.” Salt Lake Tribune, November 4, 1928.
“New Langsner move in Small case expected.” Winnipeg Tribune, November 16, 1928.
“New Orleans opera house, scene of glorious triumphs, now a mass of ruins.” Musical America, December 13, 1919.
“Not Small, declare Sackett and Hogarth.” Des Moines Tribune, August 16, 1921.
“Nothing overlooked by police searching for Ambrose Small.” Vancouver Province, December 3, 1920.
“Only vague chance.” Montreal Gazette, November 26, 1920.
“Paris knows nothing of Ambrose J. Small.” Ottawa Journal, August 13, 1920.
“Permission for probate given.” Winnipeg Tribune, June 5, 1923.
“Prof. Langsner to attempt to solve disappearance of five-year-old Julia Johnson.” Winnipeg Tribune, November 1, 1928.
“Prof. X's mind slowly clearing.” Camden (NJ) Courier-Post, January 12, 1920.
“Reward of $50,000 starts new international search for Small.” Buffalo Times, May 28, 1923.
“Reward offer of $50,000 to expire Sept. 1.” Des Moines Register, August 15, 1921.
“Search for Small's body in Montreal.” Ottawa Citizen, January 19, 1921.
“Small's body is found in dead house.” Regina Leader-Post, August 13, 1920.
“Small fake is exposed – newspaper hoax bared by Register.” Des Moines Register, August 16, 1921.
“Small named defendant in $52,500 suit.” Windsor Star, May 5, 1922.
“Small thought buried near ravine.” Windsor Star, March 9, 1922.
“Small will not genuine, according to an aunt.” Winnipeg Tribune, March 22, 1924.
“Suspected of being Ambrose Small, he resents detention.” Vancouver Sun, December 3, 1920.
“Think Ambrose Small may be alive and in hiding near Kemptville, Ontario.” Calgary Herald, February 5, 1921.
“This clue doubted.” Windsor Star, June 24, 1922.
“Thought he was Small.” Montreal Gazette, February 21, 1921.
“Thought man in Des Moines may be lost magnate.” Freeport (IL) Journal-Standard, August 15, 1921.
“Toronto detective, returning with Doughty, declares only part of Small story is known.” Ottawa Citizen, November 25, 1920.
“Toronto studies Langsner claim in Small case.” Winnipeg Tribune, October 6, 1928.
“Trace missing millionaire.” Nebraska State Journal, August 15, 1921.
“Vienna's Sherlock Holmes unknown to police world.” Winnipeg Tribune, September 13, 1928.
“Visit to bank vault.” Montreal Gazette, November 26, 1920.
“Witness avers Doughty of kidnapping.” Montreal Gazette, March 23, 1921.
“Witness says signature on will forgery.” Ottawa Journal, November 19, 1936.
“Woman friend of Small in Toronto.” Montreal Gazette, May 25, 1922.
Allen, Robert Thomas. “What really happened to Ambrose Small?” Maclean's Magazine, January 15, 1951.
Daubs, Katie. “Toronto's scoundrel of the century.” Toronto Star, September 7, 2019. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20190907/282321091692393
Dominion Law Reports, vol. 64 (C.E.T. Fitzgerald, C.B. Labatt, Russel S. Smart, and A.P. Grigg, editors). Toronto: Canada Law Book, 1922.
O'Leary, Dillon. “Small: foul play or did he run out?” Ottawa Journal, November 23, 1974.
St. John, Jordan. Lost Breweries of Toronto. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2014.
https://www.grandtheatre.com/mysterious-disappearance-ambrose-j-small
http://www.hogtownempire.com/
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/porchlightcanada/1919-small-ambrose-12-2-1919-t1102.html
http://theothersidetv.ca/extra-research-season-4-episode-10/
http://strangeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/collecting-ambrose-small.html
https://calebandlindapirtle.com/inside-mind-murderer/
Second Halloween episode. This year's creepy stories are the tales of the cursed Zoarites of New York State; the black-veiled Reverend Moody of 1700s Maine; Connecticut's Moodus mystery booms, a battle of witches, and a cursed jewel; Detroit's Nain Rouge; a morbid phantom at Holly Tree Cottage, in England; the 1938 urban legend of the New Orleans “devil man"; and bizarre behavior and sightings at the scene of some fires in 1909 Rochester, New York.
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SOURCES
“Maybe balloon lodged on roof.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, August 16, 1909.
“The peddler's curse.” Cincinnati Enquirer, February 13, 1892.
F.V.C. “From Across the Abyss.” The Occult Review, February 1909.
Potter, Gail M. "The Legend of Handkerchief Moody." From Mysterious New England. Camden, ME: Yankee Books, 1971.
Ries, Maurice. “Weird story of the Louisiana Devil Man.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 18, 1938.
Skinner, Charles M. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1896.
In autumn 1911, the Tumbling Run valley in Pennsylvania was afflicted by a curse in the shape of a black cat. This is a story of misfortune, the supernatural, black cats in cages, and arson.
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SOURCES
“After a witchcat.” Indiana Weekly Messenger, May 22, 1912.
“Alleged hex cat captured.” Pottsville Republican, September 30, 1911.
“Another runaway attributed to hex.” Pottsville Republican, October 3, 1911.
“Ask that hex cat be forgotten.” Pottsville Republican, November 2, 1911.
“Bad crops laid to Mary's witch cat.” Adams County Independent, October 21, 1911.
“Called sister witch.” Lancaster Inquirer, September 30, 1911.
“Death by hex, many other calamities.” Pottsville Republican, September 22, 1911.
“Hex cat dodges bullet of gold.” Pottsville Republican and Herald, September 28, 1911.
“Hex cat fails to turn up to be shot with a gold bullet.” New Castle Herald, October 6, 1911.
“Hex cat man is frozen to death.” Mount Carmel Item, January 8, 1918.
“Hex cat worries Schuylkill County.” Allentown Democrat, October 10, 1911.
“Hex cats' victim tries to burn 2 tenements.” Danville Morning News, June 17, 1916.
“Hex doctors congress on bewitched farm.” Greenville Record-Argus, September 30, 1911.
“Hex victim is buried, spirits after daughter.” Pottsville Republican, September 26, 1911.
“Many want to capture hex cat.” Pottsville Republican, September 29, 1911.
“News oddities.” Lancaster Semi-Weekly New Era, June 17, 1916.
“No arson in hex fire.” Harrisburg Telegraph, November 24, 1916.
“Pottsville has a hex of a time.” Pottsville Republican, October 16, 1911.
“Powwow folk fix it all up.” Lebanon Courier and Semi-Weekly Report, October 3, 1911.
“Supposed demon cat is captured with Bible.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 2, 1911.
“That Tumbling Run hex.” Pottsville Republican, September 26, 1911.
“Thomas, hex cat victim, to spend 90 days in jail.” Mount Carmel Item, June 28, 1916.
“Will kill hex cat for $25.” Pottsville Republican, October 11, 1911.
“Witches are blamed for man's ill luck.” San Francisco Examiner, December 3, 1911.
http://schuylkillhavenhistory.com/TUMBLINGRUN.html
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167758949/howell-thomas
https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm#sort=First_Name+asc,Last_Name+asc&q=thomas&fq%5B%5D=State%3A%22Pennsylvania%22
Urban legends from the Netherlands, France, Germany, and England, speak of women with the heads of pigs. Similar tales are still extant in the urban legends of the United States.
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SOURCES
London Examiner, February 26, 1815.
“Lady Hyde Parker's masqued fete, &c.” London Morning Post, May 31, 1815.
“Summary account of the prophetic origin and history of Joanna Southcott,” The Exeter Flying Post, September 8, 1814.
Bondeson, Jan. The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
— and Arie Molenkamp. “The Countess Margaret of Henneberg and her 365 children.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 89 (December 1996).
Chambers, Robert. “'Modern myths' – the pig-faced lady,” Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, August 17, 1850.
de Rochechouart, Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1899.
"A Certaine Relation of the Hog-faced Gentlewoman...” https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A12308.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
"A Monstrous Shape, or a Shapelesse Monster.” https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A10066.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
“The Long-Nos'd Lass.” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Long-Nos%27d_Lass
https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-the-medieval-chronicle/tabula-egmundana-SIM_02396?lang=en
In the summer of 1907, two bodies turned up in different sections of Oklahoma, shot, presumably robbed – and with their ears cut off.
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SOURCES
“Another mystery.” McAlester Daily Capital, August 2, 1907.
“Black Hand in Oklahoma.” Drummond Herald, August 15, 1907.
“Brutal murder in box car.” Parsons (KS) Daily Sun, July 29, 1907.
“Bury body held 5 years.” St. Louis (MO) Globe-Democrat, April 29, 1912.
“Charles Gunreth is a victim of murderous organization.” Oklahoma Post, August 2, 1907.
“Crawford is yet alive.” Tuttle Times, August 9, 1907.
“Crime is fixed on Tuttle man.” Lawton Daily News-Republican, August 2, 1907.
“Crimes committed by the same persons?” Chickasha Daily Express, August 7, 1907.
“Ear snipped body again identified.” Wichita Beacon, December 20, 1911.
“Ear snipper up again.” Chickasha Daily Express, March 20, 1908.
“Ear snippers are believed to be in custody of officers.” Oklahoma Post, September 9, 1907.
“Earless body is unidentified.” McAlester Daily Capital, August 3, 1907.
“Ears severed from the heads.” Jasper (IN) Herald, August 9, 1907.
“Earlsboro man is discharged.” Shawnee Daily Herald, September 18, 1907.
“Expect more arrests in Gunreth mystery.” Oklahoma Post, September 14, 1907.
“False arrest suits in murder mystery put off.” Daily Oklahoman, April 22, 1910.
“Find body of murdered man.” Oklahoma News, March 18, 1907.
“Firm under sweating.” Ardmore Morning Democrat, September 11, 1907.
“Five men arrested, two are discharged.” Chickasha Daily Express, July 30, 1907.
“Frantz offers reward.” Daily Ardmoreite, August 12, 1907.
“Fryrear returns.” Tuttle Times, August 16, 1907.
“The Gunreth murder.” Lawton Daily News-Republican, March 25, 1908.
“Identification now complete.” Hobart Daily Republican, April 1, 1907.
“Identity of dead man brought to light.” Hobart Daily Republican, March 22, 1907.
“Indian may have committed the crime.” Oklahoma Post, August 2, 1907.
“Isabel boy not victim.” Wichita Daily Eagle, August 23, 1907.
“Isabel items.” Barber County Index, September 4, 1907.
“Maintain innocence.” Chickasha Daily Express, September 11, 1907.
“Man found in Elk Creek.” Roosevelt Record, March 22, 1907.
“May be murderers of unknown man.” Lawton Daily News-Republican, July 29, 1907.
“May catch ear snippers.” Chickasha Daily Express, December 26, 1907.
“May have been Tuttle man.” Lawton Daily News-Republican, August 1, 1907.
“May have murderer.” Chickasha Journal, July 30, 1907.
“Most brutal murder committed.” Chickasha Daily Express, July 29, 1907.
“Mummy is positively identified.” Chickasha Daily Express, December 21, 1911.
“Murder case still a mystery.” Oklahoma City Weekly Times, August 9, 1907.
“Murder growing mysterious.” Cement Courier, August 9, 1907.
“Murder mystery grows complex!” Hobart Daily Republican, July 20, 1907.
“Murdered in car.” Fort Smith (AR) Times, July 29, 1907.
“Mysterious ear clipping baffle Oklahoma officials.” Greensboro (NC) Daily News, October 27, 1907.
“Mysteriously disappeared.” Tuttle Times, August 2, 1907.
“Not able to solve.” Shawnee Union Gazette, August 3, 1907.
“Officers have right clue in big mystery.” Ardmore Morning Democrat, September 18, 1907.
“One more victim of band of thugs.” Muskogee Daily Phoenix, August 2, 1907.
“Sees his sister among the dead.” Oklahoma Post, September 1, 1907.
“Still unidentified.” Daily Ardmoreite, August 20, 1907.
“Theory of Gunreth murder revives old seduction story.” Oklahoma Post, August 7, 1907.
“Three Tuttle men arrested.” Chickasha Journal, August 1, 1907.
“To call special grand jury.” Chickasha Journal, August 5, 1907.
“Two men found dead with ears clipped off.” Houston Post, September 3, 1912.
“Unknown man murdered in Frisco box car.” Chickasha Journal, July 29, 1907.
“Waters of Big Elk reveal ghastly crime.” Hobart Daily Republican, March 18, 1907.
“Wilbur Gunreth's mother fails to identify body.” Oklahoma Post, August 3, 1907.
“Will offer reward.” Vinita Daily Chieftain, August 5, 1907.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58663849/johnny-robinett
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69091681/wilbert-olin-gunreth
There is a tradition in certain homes in England – northern England, mainly – of keeping a skull in a house or else poltergeist phenomena will ensue. Generally these are called “screaming skulls,” although only a small number are reputed to make any sound whatsoever. What are these “screaming skulls”? A remnant of ancestor worship? Several skulls are described.
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SOURCES
“Northern answers,” Yorkshire Herald, June 13, 1896.
“Wardley Hall and the legend of the skull,” Manchester Weekly Times, September 9, 1892.
Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Folk-Lore. London: Collins, 1913.
Clarke, David. The Head Cult: Tradition and Folklore Surrounding the Symbol of the Severed Human Head in the British Isles. PhD Thesis: University of Sheffield, 1999.
Holland, Richard. A Guide to Welsh Ghostlore. The History Press, 2011.
Jennings, Louis John. Rambles Among the Hills in the Peak of Derbyshire, and the South Downs. London: John Murray, 1880.
Lysons, Daniel and Samuel. Magna Britannia: Being A Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, vol. 3. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814.
Roberts, Kai. Folklore of Yorkshire. The History Press, 2013.
Sturluson, Snorri. Heimskringla, History of the Kings of Norway (translated by Lee M. Hollander). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002 (reprint of 1964 edition).
Sussex Archaeological Collections, Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County (vol. XVI). Lewes, Sussex: George P. Bacon, 1864.
http://launcestonthen.co.uk/index.php/the-people/the-peter-family/
http://archiseek.com/2009/1898-wardley-hall-lancashire/#.URDe7_dFCM8
https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/head-celtic-head-cult
https://clasmerdin.blogspot.com/2017/12/dover-castle-gawains-skull.html
From the 1920s until the 1940s, parts of western Pennsylvania were plagued by reports of beheaded and dissected bodies. Police believed they might have been the work of a notorious American serial killer...
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SOURCES
“Another victim of mad butcher.” Uniontown Morning Herald, November 4, 1940.
“Car inspector locates head this morning.” New Castle News, October 19, 1939.
“Cleveland torso slayer suspected in Pittsburgh case.” Kane Republican, May 3, 1940.
“Coroner's jury probes murder.” New Castle News, July 20, 1921.
“Detective finds missing head this afternoon.” New Castle News, October 8, 1925.
“Detectives check railroad route of 3 death cars.” Kane Republican, May 4, 1940.
“Headless bodies found in swamp.” Warren Tribune, October 19, 1925.
“Headless bodies of three men found in R.R. yard in Pittsburgh.” York Gazette and Daily, May 4, 1940.
“Headless body of girl found at New Castle.” Shamokin News-Dispatch, October 14, 1939.
“Headless body of slain girl found in Murder Swamp.” Danville Morning News, October 14, 1939.
“Mad butcher victim found at New Castle.” Franklin News-Herald, November 5, 1940.
“Manhunt for mad butcher.” Warren Times-Mirror, May 4, 1940.
“Murderer of Mrs. Emma Jackson near Ellwood still at large.” New Castle News, March 18, 1921.
“Mystery of headless body baffles authorities.” New Castle News, October 7, 1925.
“New Castle Junction car reveals mystery.” New Castle News, July 2, 1936.
“No solution to headless body mystery as yet,” New Castle News, October 16, 1939.
“Organize search for new victims of head-chopper.” Harrisburg Telegraph, October 19, 1925.
“Reported identification of one of marsh victims investigated by sheriff.” New Castle News, October 21, 1925.
“Second skull found.” New Castle News, October 19, 1925.
“Seek method of identifying man in murder case.” New Castle News, October 20, 1939.
“Seeks fiend hiding in swamp.” Buffalo (NY) Courier, October 18, 1925.
“Shred of burnt shirt 'headless murder' clue.” Harrisburg Telegraph, October 21, 1939.
“Swamp reveals new mystery as body is found.” New Castle News, October 16, 1934.
Badal, James Jessen. In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2001.
—. Hell's Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2013.
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Part 3, Musical Compositions. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1941.
Hazen, Aaron L. 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County. Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing, 1908.
The story of the murder of L. Sealey Houk and the arrest of Rocco Racco, as told in a reading from "Pinkertons Write History of the Houk Case for the Herald," New Castle Herald, October 3, 1908.
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The highways of the Midwestern United States were home to two unidentified individuals known as “phantoms” in 1952. Well, one individual and one that very well may have been mass hysteria. These are the stories of the 40 Phantom that haunted Ohio's roadways, terrified truck drivers, and resembled something from a Misfits song or Rob Zombie video; and the Blue Phantom, who took potshots at Illinois motorists (maybe), are featured.
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SOURCES – 40 Phantom
Zanesville Times-Recorder, March 29, 1952.
“Columbus man is victim; stolen auto recovered.” Newark Advocate, March 4, 1952.
“Frightened drivers glimpse Route 40 phantom in area.” Salem News, March 27, 1952.
“Green phantom blamed in wreck; gagster fined.” East Liverpool Evening Review, March 29, 1952.
“Green phantom fails to show after calls.” Salem News, March 31, 1952.
“Highway ghost phones warning of tonight's run.” East Liverpool Evening Review, March 28, 1952.
“Highway phantom calls his shot.” Zanesville Times-Recorder, March 29, 1952.
“His name is Legion.” Marion Star, March 19, 1952.
“Jury visits highway crime scene,” Newark Advocate, April 29, 1952.
“Lausche refuses to intervene in Louis Angel case.” Newark Advocate, January 23, 1953.
“Legion enter chase for phantom gunman.” Raleigh Register (Beckley, WV), February 19, 1952.
“Marshall challenges phantom.” Zanesville Times-Recorder, March 20, 1952.
“Mystery gunman clue uncovered,” Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, February 14, 1952.
“Pawnbroker says he lent Angel $20 on murder gun.” Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, May 1, 1952.
“Phantom gunman sought by police.” Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, February 1, 1952.
“Phantom dares Ohio sheriff.” Anderson (IN) Herald, March 16, 1952.
“Phantom does as boasted, haunts Rt. 7.” Salem News, March 29, 1952.
“Phantom driver scares truckers on Ohio highway.” New Philadelphia Daily Times, March 7, 1952.
“Phantom seen again.” Mansfield News-Journal, March 20, 1952.
“Phantom skeleton may be dancing now on Route 7.” East Liverpool Evening Review, March 13, 1952.
“Route 40 phantom chases 4 drivers near West Point.” East Liverpool Evening Review, March 27, 1952.
“Route 40 phantom frightens auto, truck drivers in Ohio.” Cumberland (MD) Evening Times, March 7, 1952.
“Rt. 40 phantom utilizes green smoke screen.” Salem News, March 20, 1952.
“Takes latest scientific gadgets for successful ghost these days.” Zanesville Times-Recorder, March 15, 1952.
“Terror on a highway.” Kansas City (MO) Times, March 7, 1952.
“Who's scared? Er, how much for bullet-proof windows?” Charleston (WV) Daily Mail, February 15, 1952.
SOURCES – Blue Phantom
“Blue phantom fires at three motorists Sunday, police hear.” Dixon Evening Telegraph, June 9, 1952.
“Blue phantom gunman's raiding continues in Illinois.” Tucson (AZ) Daily Citizen, June 7, 1952.
“Blue phantom gunman sought for shooting at motorists.” Denton (TX) Record-Chronicle, June 9, 1952.
“Blue phantom on prowl in Fairview – with water gun.” Decatur Daily Review, June 13, 1952.
“Blue phantom reports spread to Indiana.” Mattoon Journal-Gazette, June 10, 1952.
“Blue phantom sniper fires on motorists from fast car.” Mount Vernon Register-News, May 31, 1952.
“Boy, 16, adds to confusion in mystery shooting.” St. Louis (MO) Globe-Democrat, June 1, 1952.
“Bullet near body hampers inquiry.” Joplin (MO) Globe, June 1, 1952.
“Canton man released.” Edwardsville Intelligencer, June 12, 1952.
“Car which backfires may be phantom.” Bloomington Pantagraph, June 15, 1952.
“Drive to grab blue phantom intensified.” Mattoon Journal Gazette, June 9, 1952.
“Gunman sought near Decatur.” Decatur Herald, June 17, 1952.
“He sees the blue phantom.” Dixon Evening Telegraph, June 6, 1952.
“Holbrook tells of gunman on Route 128.” Decatur Daily Review, June 7, 1952.
“Monticello lion, move over.” Decatur Daily Review, June 11, 1952.
“Officers' car hit by gunfire from phantom.” Decatur Herald, June 16, 1952.
“One blue phantom scare was youth with rubber gun.” Mount Vernon Register-News, June 12, 1952.
“Phantom gunman continues Midwest sniping attacks.” Medford (OR) Mail Tribune, June 8, 1952.
“Phantom gunman, or the weather?” Decatur Herald, June 12, 1952.
“Phantom reported, say 3 cars shot at on highway.” Jacksonville Daily Journal, June 15, 1952.
“Phantom shooting here this noon.” Decatur Daily Review, June 2, 1952.
“Phantom sniper uses blanks now.” Terre Haute (IN) Tribune, June 14, 1952.
“Phantom snipes at 5 more drivers.” Carroll (IA) Daily Times-Herald, June 7, 1952.
“Phantom strikes,” Decatur Herald, June 17, 1952.
“Police on alert but doubt stories of blue phantom.” Jacksonville Daily Journal, June 11, 1952.
“Police take to air in hunt for blue phantom.” Mount Vernon Register-News, June 7, 1952.
“Raack shooting suspect fires on third motorist.” St. Louis (MO) Globe-Democrat, June 2, 1952.
“State police halt cars to hunt phantom.” Columbia City (IN) Commercial-Mail, June 3, 1952.
“Wabash subway shot renews phantom chase.” Decatur Herald, June 20, 1952.
Bartholomew, Robert and Hilary Evans. Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior. San Antonio: Anomalist Books, 2009.
https://time.com/3880033/behind-the-picture-love-atop-a-flagpole-1946/
http://www.genealogypitstop.com/chestermayor.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66_in_Illinois
Allegations of Satanism and black magic take the place of poisoning as the Affair of the Poisons draws to a close.
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Williams, H. Noel. Madame de Montespan and Louis XIV. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.
http://www.angelfire.com/az3/synagogasatanae/zacharias.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Angélique_de_Scorailles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_fly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharidin
In the wake of the sensational trial and execution of Madame de Brinvilliers, Paris was scandalized by the discovery of an occult underground believed to be responsible for a number of poisonings of people great and small alike. In Part One of this multi-part episode, I detailed the first few arrests made in the latter part of the 1670s, those associated with Madeleine de la Grange, with Louis de Vanens, and with Marie Vigoreaux and Marie Bossé. With the discovery of another woman's name, the arrests were soon to cross into some of the highest in the land.
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SOURCES
Duramy, Benedetta Faedi. “Women and Poisons in 17th Century France,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 87:2 (2012).
Funck-Brentano, Frantz. Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV (translated by George Maidment). London: Duckworth and Co., 1901.
Somerset, Anne. The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism in the Court of King Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.
Summers, Montague. The Geography of Witchcraft. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978 (repr. of 1927 edition).
Williams, H. Noel. Madame de Montespan and Louis XIV. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.
http://partylike1660.com/catherine-monvoisin-fortune-teller-sorceress-and-poisoner/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ground-glass-deadly/
After the imprisonment and eventual execution of Madame de Brinvilliers, a network of murderers masquerading as fortune-tellers began to be revealed throughout Paris. Were these people actually guilty of widespread poisonings? Or was it merely a witch hunt?
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SOURCES
Bodin, Jean (Randy A. Scott, translator). The Demon-Mania of Witches (originally published as De la Démonomanie des Sorciers, 1580). Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1995.
Duramy, Benedetta Faedi. “Women and Poisons in 17th Century France,” Chicago-Kent Law Review 87:2 (2012).
Funck-Brentano, Frantz (George Maidment, translator). Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV. London: Duckworth and Co., 1901.
Guazzo, Francesco Maria (Montague Summers, translator). Compendium Maleficarum: The Montague Summers Edition. New York: Dover, 1988.
Lynn, W.T. “The Comet of 1664.” The Observatory 31 (1908).
Sewell, Elizabeth Missing. Popular History of France, from the Earliest Period to the Death of Louis XIV. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876.
Somerset, Anne. The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism in the Court of King Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.
Summers, Montague. The Geography of Witchcraft. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978 (repr. of 1927 edition).
http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2012/03/marie-bosse-french-serial-killer-1679.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Vanens
Called “one of the most famous poisoners and murderers of all time” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Marquise de Brinvilliers over a ten year period murdered her father and two brothers, as well as attempting a few other murders. The case also had an unintended aftermath...
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Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.
SOURCES
“Brinvilliers, Marie Madeleine Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de.” Encyclopædia Britannica (1911). https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Brinvilliers,_Marie_Madeleine_Marguerite_d%27Aubray,_Marquise_de
Dumas, Alexander. “The Marquise de Brinvilliers” in Celebrated Crimes, vol. 8. New York: P.F. Collier, 1910.
Mackay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: National Illustrated Library, 1852.
Somerset, Anne. The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism in the Court of King Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003.
Stokes, Hugh. Madame de Brinvilliers and Her Times, 1630-1676. New York: John Lane Company, 1912.
Summers, Montague. Witchcraft and Black Magic. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2012 (reprint of 1946 ed.)
https://www.thehairpin.com/2014/07/the-big-book-of-female-killers-chapter-2-the-marquise-de-brinvilliers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobelins_Manufactory
The cases of the Romanian Eleonore Zugun, the Filipina Clarita Villanueva, and the English Giles children, all of whom were supposedly bitten by invisible phantoms.
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SOURCES
“13-year-old girl psychic puzzles Europe's scientists,” Kingsport (TN) Times, November 7, 1926.
“A priest battles devils to save girl,” Singapore Free Press, May 23, 1953.
“Dracula nervous fits?” Townsville (Aus.) Daily Bulletin, May 22, 1953.
“Dracula victim can be cured,” Melbourne (Aus.) Argus, May 21, 1953.
“Ghost that bites girl to be exorcised,” Adelaide (Aus.) Advertiser, May 20, 1953.
“Girl faints as spirits bite,” The Straits Times, May 19, 1953.
“Girl in fits tells of handsome man,” Singapore Free Press, May 20, 1953.
“Is there a personal devil? Courts of Munich have been called to decide,” Abilene (TX) Reporter-News, March 27, 1927.
“Maid astounds men of science,” Newport (RI) Mercury, December 25, 1926.
“Manila mayor confirms spook attacks on girl,” Beaver County (PA) Times, May 20, 1953.
“New light on the last days of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,” Psypioneer 2:7 (July 2006).
“Solving the mystery of the amazing 'stigmata girl' who puzzled two nations,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, February 24, 1929.
“Witch child's psychic powers baffle Britons – girl's presence makes articles fly about room,” El Paso Herald, January 1, 1927.
Bartholomew, Robert and Hilary Evans. Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior. San Antonio: Anomalist, 2009.
Bilu, Yoram. “The taming of the deviants and beyond: an analysis of dybbuk possession and exorcism in Judaism,” in Matt Goldish, ed., Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
Clarkson, Michael. The Poltergeist Phenomenon: An In-Depth Investigation Into Floating Beds, Smashing Glass, and Other Unexplained Disturbances. Pompton Plains, NJ: New Page, 2011.
Latimer, John. The Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century. London: The Author, 1893.
Malacz, Peter. “Eleonore Zugun – the re-evaluation of an historic RSPK case,” Journal of Parapsychology 63:1, 1999.
Price, Harry. Fifty Years of Psychical Research. London: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1939.
Russell, W. Ritchie. “Major hysteria,” British Medical Journal, April 27, 1935.
Sigerson, George. “A lecture on certain phenomena of hysteria major, delivered at La Salpétrière, November 17th, by Professor Charcot,” British Medical Journal, November 30, 1878.
Somer, Eli. “Trance possession disorder in Judaism: sixteenth century dybbuks in the near east,” Journal of Trauma & Dissociation 5:2, 2004.
Summers, Montague. The Geography of Witchcraft. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978 (repr. of 1927 edition).
–. The Vampire, His Kith and Kin. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1929.
Sumrall, Lester. Bitten By Devils. South Bend, IN: LeSEA Publishing, 1987.
http://www.skeptophilia.com/2013/05/why-anecdote-isnt-enough-strange-story.html
http://anomalyinfo.com/Stories/1953-may-9-19-ca-clarita-villanueva-attacked-invisible-fangs
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/04/eleonore-zugun-the-romanian-ghost-girl-possessed-by-dracu/
https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/about/page/id/8/college-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata
https://oca.org/questions/romancatholicism/manifestations
The case of a missing girl in 1885 London leads to the passage of a law raising the age of consent and more strongly prosecuting sex offenses. But when the girl herself is returned to her mother unharmed, questions arise...
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SOURCES
“A missing daughter,” Pall Mall Gazette, July 13, 1885.
“Charles Armstrong again.” Pall Mall Gazette, February 25, 1886.
“Eliza Armstrong's brother.” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, July 11, 1897.
“The maiden tribute of the modern Babylon – I.” Pall Mall Gazette, July 6, 1885.
“News of Eliza Armstrong,” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, June 9, 1889.
“The abduction of Eliza Armstrong.” Manchester Guardian, September 8. 1885.
“The Armstrong abduction case,” Manchester Weekly Times and Examiner, November 14, 1885.
“The Armstrong case, summing up and verdict.” Birmingham Daily Post, November 9, 1885.
“The case of Eliza Armstrong – the lost child recovered,” Illustrated Police News, September 5, 1885.
“The Eliza Armstrong case,” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, August 23, 1885.
“The mother and her lost child – further strange disclosures – Mr. Bramwell Booth throws a light on the mystery,” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, August 16, 1885.
“The return of Eliza Armstrong,” Pall Mall Gazette, August 25, 1885.
“Working the Criminal Law Amendment Act,” Pall Mall Gazette, August 5, 1885.
Butler, Josephine. Rebecca Jarrett. London: Morgan and Scott, 1886.
Gaston, Edward Page, ed. British Supplement to the New Encyclopedia of Social Reform. London and New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1908.
Le Feuvre, Cathy. The Armstrong Girl: A Child for Sale. Oxford: Lion Hudson, 2015.
Plowden, Alison. The Case of Eliza Armstrong: A Child of 13 Bought for £5. London: BBC, 1974.
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https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2016/03/eliza-armstrong-still-elusive.html
An anthology of some smaller stories. An attempted resurrection; a case of either auto-hypnosis or insanity, no one is sure which; a ghost in Newark, NJ; the Knickerbocker Ghost of Brooklyn; a headless flying man; a wild woman; and the Witch Rock of Hopkins Hill, RI.
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Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.
SOURCES
“A witch's rock,” Winfield (KS) Daily Courier, September 3, 1885. “Brooklyn ghost: pshaw!” New York Times, November 23, 1894. "Bury son to restore life,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1924. “Crowds watch for a ghost,” New York Evening World, May 18, 1894. “Ghost with a bass voice,” New York Evening World, May 17, 1894. “Headless man,” Hartford (KY) Republican, May 6, 1904. “Scared by a wild creature,” New York Times, October 20, 1882. “Who can release this mental prisoner?” St. Louis (MO) Republic, May 25, 1902.
In the 1930s, two gold prospectors working in the mountains of Wyoming find a mummy of a tiny man only about a foot in height. Does it change everything we know about human evolution in North America? Or is the truth of the matter far more... normal than it appears on the surface?
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SOURCES
“A race of pygmies,” St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, May 26, 1896.
“About Mammoth Cave,” Moberly (MO) Monitor-Index, November 22, 1912.
“Did a race of pygmies once live in America?” Milwaukee Sentinel, August 17, 1941.
“Glenrock lease sold,” Casper Star-Tribune, October 22, 1917.
“Pygmy skeleton dug up,” Billings (MT) Weekly Gazette, August 30, 1907.
“Woman scribe believes sex equality overdue,” Clovis (NM) News-Journal, October 20, 1966.
Aufderheide, Arthur. The Scientific Study of Mummies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Clark, Ella E. Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.
Schneck, Robert Damon. The President's Vampire. San Antonio: Anomalist Books, 2005.
Yule, Henry, trans. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East (2 vols.). London: John Murray, 1871.
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http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2016/06/remembering-pedro-missing-mini-mummy-of.html
http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2009/04/north-americas-elusive-babyfeet-part-1.html
http://www.badarchaeology.com/out-of-place-artefacts/anomalous-human-remains/the-‘beartooth-highway-molar’/
Two young girls mysteriously disappear, and a third is found murdered – and all lived in the same road in east London. Also, a number of other disappearances and murders which may, or may not, be connected...
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Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.
SOURCES
London Daily News, May 24, 1881.
“Abduction of children from London,” Pall Mall Gazette, August 5, 1884.
“Disappearance of a child,” Hampshire Telegraph and Naval Chronicle, February 16, 1884.
“Horrible crime at West Ham,” Illustrated Police News, February 22, 1890.
“Horrible discovery at West Ham – a missing girl murdered and outraged,” Royal Cornwall Gazette, February 20, 1890.
“Horrible outrage and murder at West Ham,” Essex County Standard, February 22, 1890.
“Missing,” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, December 10, 1882.
“Missing,” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, May 18, 1884.
“Missing girls,” London Daily News, April 3, 1882.
“Missing persons,” Reynolds' Newspaper, July 9, 1882.
“Mysterious disappearances,” Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, March 5, 1882.
“Mysterious disappearance of a girl at Plaistow,” Essex County Standard, May 28, 1881.
“The decoying of English girls,” Nottinghamshire Guardian, June 24, 1881.
“The disappearance of children from West Ham,” London Daily News, August 8, 1884.
“The disappearance of a young girl from West Ham,” London Daily News, February 3, 1882.
“The incorporation of West Ham,” London Times, November 1, 1886.
“The mysterious disappearance of girls at West Ham,” Reynolds' Newspaper, June 5, 1881.
“The West Ham abduction case,” London Standard, February 6, 1882.
“The West Ham murder – supposed discovery of the missing keys,” Illustrated Police News, May 24, 1890.
“West Ham,” London Standard, August 7, 1884.
“West Ham – another girl missing,” London Daily News, July 8, 1882.
Chaumont, Jean-Michel. “The White Slave Trade Affair (1880-1881): A Scandal Specific to Brussels?” Brussels Studies 46:24 (January 2011).
Stead, W.T. “The maiden tribute of modern Babylon III: the report of our Secret Commission,” Pall Mall Gazette, July 8, 1885.
https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-disappearance-of-eliza-carter-january-1882/
William Kent had an unorthodox – for the early 1760s – life, living openly with a woman who was not his wife. Because of this scandal, and other factors, after his “wife's” death in 1762, he is accused of murder by what is – at least on the surface – her ghost.
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SOURCES
“A summary account of the proceedings in regard to some strange noises, heard the beginning of the year at a house in Cock-lane West Smithfield.” The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature, of the Year 1762. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1763.
“Cock-Lane Ghost,” Ottawa Citizen, July 15, 1905.
Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of his Epistolary Correspondence and Conversatins with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of his Composition, Never Before Published. London: Henry Baldwin, 1791.
Clarke, Roger. “A Haunting on Scandal Street: The Cock Lane Ghost Revisited.” Fortean Times 335 (Christmas 2015).
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Mystery Revealed; containing a Series of Transactions and Authentic Testimonials, respecting the supposed Cock-Lane Ghost, which have hitherto been concealed from the Public. London: W. Bristow, 1762.
Lang, Andrew. Cock Lane and Common Sense. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894.
Mackay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: National Illustrated Library, 1852.
https://alondoninheritance.com/london-streets/cock-lane-golden-boy-ghost-hogarth/
In 1763, the Paxton Rangers are formed. They are meant to protect their hometown from marauding Native Americans, but after returning from upstate some of them began to take matters into their own hands and are condemned by none other than Benjamin Franklin.
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Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.
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Brubaker, Jack. Massacre of the Conestogas. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010.
Franklin, Benjamin. A Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County of a Number of Indians, Friends of this Province, by Persons Unknown, with some Observations on the same. Philadelphia: Anthony Armbruster, 1764.
Parkman, Francis. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1870.
Shirk, Willis J. “Wright's Ferry: A Glimpse Into the Susquehanna Backcountry.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 120: 1 / 2 (January/April 1996).
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Stainton, Leslie. Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.
https://allthingsliberty.com/2018/02/moravians-middle-gnadenhutten-massacre/
Two articles about Andrew Hellman, who killed his first wife, his pregnant second wife, and very likely two of his children. Articles are from the Baltimore Sun and the Carlisle Weekly Herald.
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Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.
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“Andrew Hellman, alias Adam Horn, His Life, Character, and Crimes,” Baltimore Sun, December 2, 1843. “Another Atrocious Murder,” Carlisle (PA) Weekly Herald, May 3, 1843.
Profile of Julia Pastrana, Mexican "freak show" performer of the 1850s, who was misused - shockingly - after her death in childbirth, and her eventual return to Mexico.
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Athens (Tennessee) Messenger, July 28, 1854. “A novel suit,” Baltimore Sun, November 10, 1855. “Common pleas – special term,” New York Herald, April 18, 1849. “Freaks' requests,” Reading (PA) Times, April 8, 1885. “Later from Mexico,” New York Times, November 1, 1854. “Police intelligence,” New York Herald, October 11, 1848. “Police intelligence,” New York Herald, December 14, 1848. “Police intelligence,” New York Herald, March 10, 1853. “Police intelligence,” New York Herald, March 15, 1853. “Police intelligence,” New York Herald, June 30, 1853. “Trouble about a hybrid,” American and Commercial Advertiser (Baltimore), November 12, 1855. Unknown. Curious History of the Baboon Lady, Miss Julia Pastrana. London: E. Hancock, n.d. Bondeson, Jan. A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities. New York: Norton, 1999. Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. “Julia Pastrana, la Dame Extraordinaire.” Alter 11:1 (March 2017). Gould, George M. and Walter L. Pyle. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1898.
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A retired railroad worker is murdered in his home in a classic locked door mystery. In the following weeks and months, apparently ghostly phenomena are noticed. But the truth was far weirder.
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Closing music by Soma.
"Attic wraith re-enacts his murder of man he now says he knew in Denver earlier,” Greeley Daily Tribune, August 1, 1942. “Coneys pleads innocent to first degree murder,” Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern, August 24, 1942. “Convicted ghost slayer given life,” Fresno (California) Bee, November 1, 1942. “Ghost awaits murder trial,” Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, October 29, 1942. “Ghost shows detectives how murder took place,” Brownsville (Texas) Herald, August 2, 1942. “Mrs. Peters recalls man who says he slew her husband as visitor at their home as music club member,” Greeley Daily Tribune, August 1, 1942. “Spider man, slayer of friend, living out days as life termer,” Panama City (Florida) News-Herald, July 4, 1954. “Two held here not wanted,” Greeley Daily Tribune, October 24, 1941. Childers, James E. “Death was a phantom lodger,” Denver Post Empire, February 7, 1960.
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http://www.darkhistories.com/the-spider-man-of-denver-theodore-edward-coneys/
A German legend of an evil clergyman eaten by rats. But the story isn't all it's cracked up to be; countless variants of it exist across Europe.
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Baring-Gould, Sabine. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1877. Brewer, Ebenezer C. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama (vol. 3). Coryat, Thomas. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up In Five Moneths Travells (vol. 2). Glasgow: University Press, 1905. Gask, Lilian. Folk Tales From Many Lands. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1910. Gerald of Wales. The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis. London: George Bell & Sons, 1894. Miltoun, Francis. Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine. Boston: Colonial Press, 1909. Morris, Charles. Historical Tales: The Romance of Reality (vol. 5). Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott, 1908. von Döllinger, Johann J.I. Fables Respecting the Popes in the Middle Ages. New York: Dodd & Mead, 1872. “The Mouse Tower,” Buffalo Commercial, April 9, 1901.
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https://www.fuenfseenland.de/fuenfseenland/die-fuenf-seen/woerthsee/
https://lamusdworski.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/mouse-tower/
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On November 27, 1928, a suspected curse-layer is brutally killed by three others. This is one of the more infamous stories near my home, and is one of the earliest "true" supernatural accounts I remember hearing.
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In reference to Alice Rehmeyer's statement at the beginning of the episode, “try” is the word generally used to denote pow-wow work; by “things for him to try” is meant essentially “problems to be cured.”
“Commonwealth v. Curry,” 298 Pa. 363 (Pa. 1930). https://casetext.com/case/commonwealth-v-curry-10 Donmoyer, Patrick J. Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Braucherei and the Ritual of Everyday Life. Kutztown, PA: Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, 2017. Kriebel, David W. Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch: A Traditional Medical Practice in the Modern World. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2007. McGinnis, J. Ross. Trials of Hex. York, PA: Davis/Trinity Publishing Company, 2000. Renner, Timothy. Beyond the Seventh Gate. CreateSpace, 2016. “Select counsel for 3 slayers,” Harrisburg Evening News, December 4, 1928. White, Thomas. Witches of Pennsylvania: Occult History & Lore. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2013.
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Baring, Maurice. The Mainsprings of Russia. London: T. Nelson, 1914. Brockett, L.P. Bogomils of Bulgaria and Bosnia. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1879. Calmet, Augustine. The Phantom World (Henry Christmas, trans.). Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins, 1850 (originally published as Traité sur les Apparitions des Esprit et sur les Vampires, 1751). Comnena, Anna. The Alexiad (Elizabeth Dawes, trans.). London: Kegan Paul, 1928. Conway, M.D. Demonology and Devil-lore. New York: H. Holt & Co., 1879. Keightley, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892 (originally published 1870). Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth. London: David Nutt, 1893 (original 1691). Lecouteux, Claude. The Secret History of Poltergeists and Haunted Houses (Jon E. Graham, trans.). Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011 (originally published as La Maison Hantée: Histoire des Poltergeists, 2007). —. The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices (Jon E. Graham, trans.). Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2013 (originally published as La Maison et ses Génies: Croyances d'Hier et d'Aujour d'Hui, 2000) Maxwell-Stuart, P.G. Poltergeists: A History of Violent Ghostly Phenomena. Stroud, England: Amberley, 2011. Mitterauer, Michael. Why Europe: Medieval Origins of its Special Path. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Sanidopoulos, John. The Rise of Bogomilism and Its Penetration into Constantinople. Rollinsford, NH: Orthodox Research Institute, 2011. Summers, Montague. The Vampire: His Kith and Kin. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1929. Various. Three Byzantine Saints (Elizabeth Dawes, trans.) London: Kegan Paul, 1948.
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An 1899 panic mentioned by Charles Fort - and relatively few since. Also other types of bug that were reported that summer - the ankle bug, the Dooleybug, the strangling bug, Sunkhazer flies and Walapai tigers.
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A young French woman, Mademoiselle Julie Gautard, kills herself in Youngstown, Ohio under somewhat mysterious circumstances. A year later, a "woman in white" ghost is seen near the house where she met her end.
The Bonnell Mansion: https://www.ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll36/id/2820
“Missing from Columbus,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 1888. “Missing Miss Fairweather,” New York Times, November 13, 1888. “Obituary: Henry O. Bonnell.” The Iron Age vol. 51 part 1. Obituary is in February 2, 1893. “Solved a mystery,” Pittsburgh Dispatch, April 16, 1889. “The Fairweather mystery,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 16, 1888. Woodyard, Chris. The Headless Horror: Strange and Ghostly Ohio Tales. Dayton, OH: Kestrel Publications, 2013.
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A young boy from Los Gatos, CA poisons his foster parents. Or does he? All parties waffle back and forth quite a lot on whether the offense ever even took place. With stories of hypnotism, Spiritualism, and a bizarrely-placed newspaper advertisement.
“Boy insists he tried to poison foster parents,” San Francisco Call, April 7, 1911. “Boy poisoner now declares tale untrue,” San Francisco Examiner, April 17, 1911. “Boy poisoner still sticks to first story,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 16, 1911. “Doctors smile at Mrs. Bazus' story,” San Francisco Examiner, April 6, 1911. “Mother barred from seeing boy 'poisoner',” San Francisco Examiner, April 11, 1911. “Still insists he drugged Mrs. Bazus,” San Francisco Examiner, April 7, 1911. “Think boy was hypnotized by fakir,” San Francisco Examiner, April 8, 1911. “Try hypnotism on boy's tale of poisoning,” San Francisco Examiner, April 9, 1911. “Woman is fed Rough on Rats by foster son,” San Francisco Call, April 5, 1911.
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A 1927 California murder, once called "California's worst crime," but now little-remembered. A 15-year-old girl is slain at a vacant house amidst a series of other attacks possibly by the same offender.
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“2 women hear girl's scream,” Oakland Tribune, July 5, 1927. “Actions of radium man are sifted,” Woodland Daily Democrat, July 14, 1927. “Barnett is cleared in Mayer girl death quiz,” Oakland Tribune, March 22, 1929. “Barnett is described as Santa Claus,” Oakland Tribune, March 20, 1929. “Barnett is given 20 years,” Oakland Tribune, March 21, 1929. “Brother of dead girl mystified; had no enemies, he is certain,” Oakland Tribune, July 4, 1927. “Employee of Barnett knew girl,” Oakland Tribune, March 20, 1929. “Girl seen in auto on eve of murder,” Oakland Tribune, July 8, 1927. “Here are clues in girl killing,” Oakland Tribune, July 5, 1927. “Human wolf sought in Oakland murder,” Modesto News-Herald, July 8, 1927. “Kidnapper involves boy friend of girl in Mabel Mayer murder mystery,” Oakland Tribune, March 20, 1929. “Live clue in Oakland girl murder case spurs police,” Modesto News-Herald, July 5, 1927. Logan, Guy B.H. Great Murder Mysteries. London: Stanley Paul, 1931. “Man, 35, accused of assaulting girl, 13,” Modesto News-Herald, July 30, 1927. “Man accused of kidnapping held in jail,” Oakland Tribune, February 15, 1929. “Man linked to victim of mystery,” Oakland Tribune, March 20, 1929. Marshall, Donald L. “Who killed 'Sunshine Mabel'?” True Detective Mysteries 12:3 (December 1929). “Mother not to look on slain girl,” Oakland Tribune, July 4, 1927. “Murder of girl baffles police,” Modesto News-Herald, July 7, 1927. “Murder of girl denied by prisoner,” Oakland Tribune, March 20, 1929. “Plane hunt for Salinas jail breakers” Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, September 10, 1927/ “Oakland girl murdered by maniac, say authorities,” Modesto News-Herald, July 6, 1927. “Raving youth is suspect in girl murder,” Oakland Tribune, July 14, 1927. “Rich man faces felony charge,” Oakland Tribune, January 22, 1929. "The horrible experience of Mr. John Smith,” Modesto New-Herald, July 7, 1927. “Trunk is new clue in girl murder case,” Oakland Tribune, July 4, 1927. “Two 'auto sheiks,' named by former suspect, now hunted in girl murder,” Oakland Tribune, July 7, 1927. “Woman is hunted as murderer,” Oakland Tribune, July 5, 1927. “Woman with grudge, new murder clue,” Oakland Tribune, July 6, 1927. “Youth cleared in murder case,” Oakland Tribune, July 15, 1927.
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The famous paranormal story of the moving coffins of Barbados, several other instances of moving coffins, and the coffin of Henry VIII.
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Alexander, James E. Transatlantic Sketches. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. 2 vols.
Gould, Rupert T. Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts. New York: University Books, 1965.
Halford, Henry. An Account of What Appeared on Opening the Coffin of King Charles the First. London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1813.
Lang, Andrew. “Death's Deeds: A Bi-Located Story,” Folklore, December 1907.
McNaught, Lilian. “The 1816 Barbados Slave Revolt,” https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/31536/McNaughtL_TPC.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y.
Owen, Robert D. Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. London: Trubner & Co., 1860.
Price, Harry. The End of Borley Rectory. London: G.G. Harrap, 1946.
Ridout, Brian V. “An Analytical Review of the Chase Vault Mystery at Christ Church, Barbados.” Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 82:4 (October 2018).
Stapleton-Cotton, Mary Woolley. Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1866.
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Mysterious lights are reported from a small village in northern Wales where a religious revival is underway, in 1904 and 1905.
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http://inamidst.com/lights/egryn http://daibach-welldigger.blogspot.com/2015/11/mary-jones-welsh-prophetess-of-1905.html Clark, Jerome. Unexplained! Canton, MI: Visible Ink, 1999. Corliss, William A. “Fiery Exhalations in Wales,” Science Frontiers 136 (July/August 2001). Evans, Beriah G. “Merionethshire Mysteries,” The Occult Review 1:3 (March 1905). ---. “Merionethshire Mysteries – II,” The Occult Review 1:4 (April 1905). ---. “Merionethshire Mysteries – III,” The Occult Review 1:6 (June 1905). Fort, Charles. The Complete Books of Charles Fort. New York: Dover, 1974. Fryer, A.T. “Psychological Aspects of the Welsh Revival, 1904-1905.” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research Volume 19 (1905-1907). McClure, Kevin. “Stars and Rumors of Stars: The Egryn Lights and Other Mysterious Phenomena in the Welsh Religious Revival, 1904-1905” (1980). http://magonia.haaan.com/1980/stars-and-rumours-of-stars/ Richards, William. A Pocket Dictionary, Welsh-English (1861). https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_pocket_dictionary,_Welsh-English Sandell, Roger. “UFOs in Wales in 1905,” Flying Saucer Review, 17:4 (July/August 1971). Opening music Kevin McLeod. Closing music Soma.
New England, 1909: a Massachusetts inventor of steam valves claims to have built an airplane, and sightings seem to back up his claims. Or do they?
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“Aeronaut had fight for life,” Boston Globe, July 24, 1909. “Airship story worries them,” Boston Globe, December 26, 1909. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrée%27s_Arctic_balloon_expedition Bartholomew, Robert E. and George S. Howard. UFOs & Alien Contact: Two Centuries of Mystery. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1998. Bartholomew, Robert E. and Stephen Whalen. “The Great New England Airship Hoax of 1909,” New England Quarterly 75:3 (September 2002). “Calls Tillinghast the cook of the air,” El Paso (TX) Herald, March 1, 1910. “Certain as the stars,” Boston Globe, December 25, 1909. “Fell from airship,” Boston Globe, August 24, 1909. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Curtiss “Is aviator Tillinghast hoaxing the nation? New England thinks his flying machine wonder is straight,” Evansville (IN) Press, December 30, 1909. “Like the buzzard,” Boston Globe, December 26, 1909. “Marlboro has it, too,” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909. “Many see airship in the evening star,” Fitchburg Sentinel, December 24, 1909. “Mr. Glidden is convinced,” Boston Globe, March 12, 1911. “New style aeroplane,” Boston Globe, December 5, 1909. “Tillinghast airship found,” Boston Globe, July 12, 1910. “Tillinghast flyer no joke,” Boston Globe, March 16, 1911. “Weird airship man is found,” Boston Globe, December 30, 1909. “Worcester palpitating,” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909.
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Summing up the Midwest axe murders. Suspects, some bizarre letters, and a second serial killer operating at the same time.
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Spellings used in the letter by Eli Eloi received at Villisca: 'nation' is written Nay Shun. 'Mystery of life' is written Miss Tree of life.
“Arrest a Villisca suspect,” Adams County (IA) Free Press, June 29, 1912.
Connelley, William E. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Chicago: Lewis, 1918.
Henry Lee Moore. http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/moore-henry-lee.htm.
“Hunting Iowa ax-murder clew in hundreds of crank letters,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 21, 1912.
James, Bill and Rachel McCarthy James. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery. New York: Scribner, 2017.
Klingensmith, Beth. The 1910s Ax Murders: An Overview of the Crimes and the McClaughry Theory. http://sites.rootsweb.com/~bkling/hi815%20moore%20history%20paper.pdf.
Last name: Errett. http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Errett.
“Letters puzzle the officials,” Galena (KS) Evening Times, October 25, 1911.
Marshall, Roy. Villisca: The True Account of a Mass Murder. Chula Vista, CA: Aventine, 2003.
Martin, Ernest L. “The temple symbolism in Genesis,” http://www.askelm.com/temple/t040301.htm.
“Release Villisca murder suspect,,” Des Moines Register, June 25, 1912.
Taylor, Troy. Murdered in Their Beds: History and Hauntings of Villisca and the Midwest Ax Murders.
Testimony of John V. Morse in the trial of Lizzie Borden. http://www.famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1457-morsetestimony.
The 1912 Villisca Axe Murders Blog. https://docublogger.typepad.com/villiscamystery/.
“The murder case at Villisca,” Adams County (IA) Free Press, June 29, 1912.
“The Showman murder,” Ellsworth (KS) Reporter, May 8, 1913.
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Some speculative crimes that may be by the same killer. Three crimes are described, the murder of the interracial Casaway family in San Antonio, TX; the Hills in Ardenwald, OR; and the Cobles in Rainier, WA.
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San Antonio
“Claims he is innocent,” Austin American-Statesman, August 14, 1911.
“Five in family killed while asleep,” San Antonio Express, March 23, 1911.
“House in which tragedy occurred appears gloomy,” San Antonio Express, March 25, 1911.
“M'Williams held in jail,” Houston Post, August 17, 1911.
“Mystery deepens,” Victoria Daily Advocate, March 27, 1911.
Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States (1908).
“Person crazed,” Victoria Daily Advocate, April 1, 1911.
Ruby B. Casaway. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134658370/ruby-b_-casaway
“Says he killed Casaway family,” Victoria Daily Advocate, May 30, 1911.
“Texas news,” Austin American-Statesman, August 10,1911.
“Two brothers located,” San Antonio Express, March 31, 1911.
“White suspected,” Victoria Daily Advocate, March 25, 1911.
“With a smiling face defendant hears evidence,” San Antonio Express, August 15, 1911.
Ardenwald
“A reign of terror at Ardenwald,” Salem Capital Journal, June 16, 1911.
“Attorneys admit Harvey employed them after crime,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 21, 1911.
"Fiend uses axe to murder family of five,” Oregon Daily Journal, June 9, 1911.
“Harvey family record bad; case of state in brief,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 20, 1911.
“Much evidence against Harvey not yet divulged,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 21, 1911.
“Mulatto may be murderer of 4, belief of police,” Oregon Daily Journal, June 10, 1911.
“Murder and suicide,” Salem Statesman Journal, June 12, 1890.
“Nathan Harvey is dismissed; will be rearrested,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 26, 1911.
“Nathan Harvey may be Barbara Holtzman slayer,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 21, 1911.
“Neighbors recall strange actions of Nathan Harvey,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 21, 1911.
“Posse on trail of man seeking an unused road,” Oregon Daily Journal, June 21, 1911.
“Reward of $2875 for conviction of Hills' murderer,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 20, 1911.
“Series of crimes for 20 years in Harvey's family,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 20, 1911.
“Stories agree up to about an hour before murders,” Oregon Daily Journal, December 20, 1911.
Thatcher, George A. Why Some Men Kill: Or, Murder Mysteries Revealed. Pacific Coast Rescue and Protective Society, 1919.
Rainier
“Did insane man slay couple?,” Tacoma Times, July 12, 1911.
“Fiend confesses,” Roseburg (OR) Review, July 25, 1911.
“Rainier butchery proves parallel to that of Hills,” Oregon Daily Journal, July 12, 1911.
“Sheriff Mass of Clackamas to go to Rainier, Wash.,” Oregon Daily Journal, July 16, 1911.
“Slain with axe while asleep,” Seattle Star, July 12, 1911.
“The Cathey boys in limelight,” Corvallis (OR) Weekly Gazette-Times, July 21, 1911.
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The infamous Villisca murder, the convoluted clues and divisive aftermath, when a charismatic conman came to town.
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“Axe murders claiming 31 victims during the last 4 years probed,” Green Bay (WI) Semi-Weekly Gazette, July 20, 1915. “Confesses Blue Island murder,” Princeton (IN) Daily Clarion, July 19, 1915. “Family and guests murdered in sleep,” Bayard News, June 13, 1912. “Farmer is a suicide after killing two,” Webster City Freeman, September 17, 1912. “Four are victims to mysterious axe,” Dixon (IL) Evening Telegraph, July 6, 1914. Getting the Axe. http://gettingtheaxe.blogspot.com/ James, Bill and Rachel McCarthy James. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery. New York: Scribner, 2017. “Ricks is not the man,” Marshalltown Evening Times-Republican, June 14, 1912. Taylor, Troy. Murdered in Their Beds: History and Hauntings of Villisca and the Midwest Axe Murders. Whitechapel Press, 2012. “Thinks slayer knew family,” Waterloo Courier, June 12, 1912. Villisca Ax Murder House. http://www.villiscaiowa.com/index.php “Whole family brutally slain in their home; accused man, jailed, in peril of lynching,” Tacoma (WA) Times, December 7, 1910. “Wrong confession by death's head,” Keokuk Daily Gate City, January 23, 1910.
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Before the infamous Villisca murders in Iowa, there was a series of other, eerily similar, axe murders across the Midwest indicating that that crime may not have been as isolated as is often thought...
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General Getting the Axe. http://gettingtheaxe.blogspot.com/
James, Bill and Rachel McCarthy James. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery. New York: Scribner, 2017. Taylor, Troy. Murdered in Their Beds: History and Hauntings of Villisca and the Midwest Axe Murders. Whitechapel Press, 2012.
Colorado Springs “Arrest is made in wholesale murder,” Anaconda (MT) Standard, September 22, 1911. Arthur J. Burnham (1871-1912). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22917676/arthur-j_-burnham “Burnham released,” Leadville Herald-Democrat, September 24, 1911. “Burnham involves another man,” Elk Mountain Pilot, September 28, 1911. “Burnham lived in Leavenworth,” Leavenworth (KS) Post, September 21, 1911. “Discovery of gory ax,” Leadville Herald-Democrat, September 29, 1911. “Finger mark best clue,” Leadville Herald-Democrat, September 22, 1911. “Finger print on ax examined by expert,” Leadville Herald-Democrat, September 24, 1911. “Former suitor is now suspected in killing of six,” Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times-Leader, September 22, 1911. “Ghastly crime; six are slain,” Princeton (IN) Daily Clarion, September 21, 1911. “Inquest being held,” Montrose Daily Press, September 30, 1911. “Italian is held for wholesale murder,” Butte (MT) Miner, September 22, 1911. “Italian nabbed for the murder,” Montrose Daily Press, September 22, 1911. “Searching dumb evidence,” Leadville Herald-Democrat, September 27, 1911. “Six killed with axe by unknown,” Trenton (NJ) Evening Times, September 21, 1911. “Six murdered in Colo. Springs,” Salida Record, September 22, 1911. “Suspects detained by police,” Lincoln (NB) Journal-Star, September 22, 1911. “Two families murder victims,” Anaconda (MT) Standard, September 21, 1911. “Two families not slain by an insane murderer,” Buffalo (NY) Times, September 23, 1911. “Two families with heads split open,” Montrose Daily Press, September 20, 1911.
Monmouth “Axe murder case,” Oak Hill (KS) Gazette, March 25, 1915. “Killed with ax while sleeping,” Rock Island Argus, October 2, 1911. “John Knight to prove that he was working,” Monmouth Daily Atlas, January 29, 1918. “Lovey Mitchell, colored man, is held, charged with Dawson murders,” Monmouth Daily Atlas, March 22, 1915. “Lovey Mitchell given freedom this morning,” Monmouth Daily Atlas, September 23, 1918. “Mitchell is given freedom,” Monmouth Daily Atlas, May 6, 1915. “Murder is baffling to officials,” Monmouth Republican-Atlas, October 2, 1911. “Murder trials to commence next Monday,” Monmouth Daily Atlas, January 16, 1918. “Three of family slain with ax while asleep,” Moline Dispatch, October 2, 1911.
Ellsworth “Charles Marzyck caught in Canada,” Topeka Daily Capital, May 4, 1912. “Family of five murdered in Kansas,” Boise Idaho Sunday Statesman, October 17, 1911. “He reaches Ellsworth,” Lawrence Daily Journal-World, May 16, 1912. “Showman family of five murdered,” Ellsworth Reporter, October 19, 1911. “Showman murder clue has blown think officers,” Wichita Daily Eagle, June 29, 1912. “Slayer of family of five friendly with watch dog,” Wichita Daily Eagle, October 18, 1911
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A reading from “New Landing and Creature Reports" by John Keel, appearing in the Flying Saucer Review for November/December, 1966.
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The story of another poltergeist, this one from Puritan-era England. Account from Joseph Glanvil's Saducismus Triumphatus (1681).
Claude Lecouteux: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=claude+lecouteux&sprefix=claude+le%2Caps%2C260&crid=1P328HD6POO8
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An account of a talking poltergeist or demon which afflicted a weaver in Glenluce, Scotland in the late 1600s. An excerpt from Elizabeth Lynn Linton's Witch Stories (1861).
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I'll look at this almost forgotten serial killer who terrorized Toledo, Ohio in the 1920s. Then we'll examine other attacks in Toledo in elsewhere attributed to the Clubber, the fires he supposedly set, and suspects in the case (and by necessity, the murders of Beulah Purvis, Grace Loomis, and Dorothy Sielagowski).
“6th woman victim of club killer,” Salem News, November 20, 1925.
“A giant negro,” Seymour (IN) Tribune, February 15, 1927.
“Akron Clubber comes to grief,” Coshocton Tribune, November 24, 1925.
“Alleged assailant of Toledo woman is held,” Marion Star, November 15, 1926.
“Alonzo Robinson,” http://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/robinson-alonzo.htm
“Another girl is victim of club maniac,” Coshocton Tribune, November 12, 1926.
“Another suspect in Toledo,” Wilmington News-Journal, November 28, 1925.
“Another Toledo woman clubbed,” Kentucky New Era, January 20, 1926.
“Another woman slain by clubber,” Washington (DC) Evening Star, January 19, 1926.
“Arrest of negro may clear up Toledo Clubber mystery,” Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, November 5, 1926.
“Arrest two in Toledo charged with being clubbers,” New Castle (PA) News, January 20, 1926.
“Arrested for digging up woman's body,” Huntington (IN) Herald, October 5, 1926.
“Attacker of Toledo girl identified,” Benton Harbor (MI) News-Palladium, December 17, 1925.
“Believe two maniacs at large in Toledo,” Hamilton Evening Journal, January 21, 1926.
“Bloodhounds to be put on club killer's trail,” Coshocton Tribune, November 23, 1925.
“Cincinnati prisoner is not Toledo Clubber,” Portsmouth Daily Times, January 8, 1927.
“Cleveland man held as Toledo Clubber,” Delphos Daily Herald, February 5, 1931.
“Club killer may be one of seven suspects in jail,” Salem News, November 23, 1925.
“Clubber active in Norwood,” Portsmouth Daily Times, December 1, 1925.
“Clubber may be pyromaniac,” Indiana (PA) Gazette, November 23, 1926.
“Clubber suspect dies and thwarts police,” Mattoon (IL) Journal-Gazette, March 19, 1927.
“Clubber, victim at death point,” Ironwood (MI) Daily Globe, March 19, 1927.
Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: the Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
“Detectives at Croy funeral,” Hamilton Evening Journal, October 28, 1926.
“Failure to catch Toledo Clubber stirs citizens,” Coshocton Tribune, December 1, 1926.
“Fear Toledo Clubber at falls; LaSalle girl victim,” Buffalo (NY) Courier, December 2, 1925.
“Fiend assaults and murders 7-year-old child; search begun,” Coshocton Tribune, May 29, 1928.
“Fire damages Toledo's largest auditorium,” Kane (PA) Republican, May 28, 1925.
“Grave robbery charge held,” Hamilton Evening Journal, February 14, 1927.
“Hoppe confesses series of crimes; clubbings in Toledo cleared up,” Coshocton Tribune, July 7, 1928.
“Girl's death may never be solved,” Huntington (IN) Press, October 24, 1926.
“Identity of clubber near, police believe,” Marion Star, October 28, 1926.
“Insanity to be defense of murderer of Toledo girl,” Wilmington News-Journal, May 31, 1928.
“Iron bar used in slaying,” Hamilton Evening Journal, October 27, 1926.
“Jack the clubber,” Cincinnati Enquirer, February 26, 1904.
“Loomis jury selection is slow process,” Benton Harbor (MI) News-Palladium, May 24, 1927.
“Maniac who wields club still lurks,” Zanesville Times-Recorder, November 21, 1925.
“Michigan officers link gruesome find of heads with Turner murder,” Greenwood (MS) Commonwealth, January 14, 1935.
“Mutilated body of teacher found,” Washington (DC) Evening Star, October 26, 1926.
“Murderer of Beulah Davis a black fiend,” Circleville Herald, January 4, 1927.
“New attack of mystery killer stuns police,” Marion Star, January 19, 1926.
“One is clubbed to death, other killed by bullet,” Circleville Herald, October 27, 1926.
“Organize reat man hunt for girl's slayer,” Olean (NY) Times-Herald, May 29, 1928.
“Pocketbook of victim clue to Toledo Clubber,” Zanesville Times-Recorder, October 28, 1926.
“Slain woman is identified,” New Philadelphia Daily Times, August 21, 1925.
“Slater may hunt Toledo Clubber; another woman slain last night,” Marysville Journal-Tribune, October 27, 1926.
“Slayer of Beulah Purvis is found criminal insane,” Coshocton Tribune, January 22, 1927.
“Slayer of policeman and murderer of child die in electric chair,” Zanesville Times-Recorder, December 1, 1928.
“Stephenson fails to rush big suit against the Klan,” Marshall (TX) Messenger, May 19, 1925.
“Suspect arrested as Toledo Clubber,” San Bernardino (CA) Sun, December 20, 1926.
“The Toledo Clubber – unsolved mystery of the Kuschwantz,” https://kuschwantz.wordpress.com/category/hoppe/
“Thousands hunt for maniac who attacks women,” Harrisburg (PA) Evening Times, November 21, 1925.
“To ask death for man who lured women,” Belvidere (IL) Daily Republican, September 8, 1926.
“Toledo aroused by club killer,” Salem News, November 19, 1925.
“Toledo clubber of women starts his work again,” Pittston (PA) Gazette, January 19, 1926.
“Toledo Clubber is sought by police,” Piqua Daily Call, February 4, 1931.
“Toledo Clubber may know fate this evening,” Wilmington News-Journal, July 11, 1928.
“Toledo Clubber still murdering; body parts found,” Coshocton Tribune, November 27, 1926.
“Toledo co-ed is seized near school by man,” New Castle (PA) News, December 11, 1925.
Toledo Complex, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_Complex
“Toledo police hunt slayers of two women,” Mansfield News-Journal, October 27, 1926.
“Toledo police scour city for club killer whose fourth victim flees,” East Liverpool Evening Review, November 17, 1925.
“Toledo visited by disastrous fires,” Portsmouth Daily Times, June 4, 1925.
“Two women murdered in Toledo, Ohio; teacher was assaulted, belief,” Decatur (IL) Herald, October 27, 1926.
“Victim of axe attack won't tell police,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, May 28, 1925.
“Who killed Mrs. Grace Loomis?” Rushville (IN) Daily Republican, March 17, 1927.
“Woman eludes maniac killer,” East Liverpool Evening Review, November 4, 1926.
“Woman is beaten by men; may die,” Coshocton Tribune, December 8, 1927.
“Woman victim tentatively identifies him,” Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, November 28, 1925.
“Women fail to identify Toledo man as clubber; Norwood girl attacked,” Hamilton Evening Journal, November 30, 1925.
“Young teacher is found with head crushed,” Mansfield News-Journal, October 26, 1926.
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A man in Brazil dies mysteriously, ostensibly burned by a UFO, in 1946. Also, a number of Chupacabra encounters; other Brazilian UFOs; people burnt as if by radiation in 1887 Venezuela; a "luminous cloud" over Pascagoula, Mississippi; and purple lightning in Maine.
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Carrión, Felipe Machado. “The terrible death of João Prestes at Araçariguama,” Flying Saucer Review 19:2 (March/April 1973).
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Mauso, Pablo Villarubia. “The incredible saga of Joao Prestes,” https://www.ufocasebook.com/prestes.html
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Suenaga, Claudio Tsuyoshi. “Phenomenon that defies time,” https://ufo.com.br/artigos/fenomeno-que-desafia-o-tempo.html [translated from Portuguese via Google Translate]
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Turner, N.M.H. “UFO and radiation damage in 1887?: curious phenomenon in Venezuela,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories 2 (December 1970).
“Unusual weather: ball lightning in a February thunderstorm down east in Maine,” Weatherwise 29:2 (April 1976).
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Queens, 1930. A serial killer shoots two men and sends bizarre coded messages to the press, nearly 40 years before the infamous Zodiac.
“3d parked car shooting laid to holdup man,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 20, 1930. “Another victim for New York's mystery slayer Thursday night,” Albuquerque Journal, June 20, 1930. “Deny harming balky witness in Nassau jail,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 10, 1933. “End of murders promised in new note by maniac,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 21, 1930. “Escaped L.I. inmate arrested in Phila. as maniac suspect,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 20, 1930. “First arrest made in hunt for crazy killer as third man is dying,” Canonsburg (PA) Daily Notes, June 20, 1930. “Girl is jailed as witness to grocer murder,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 16, 1930. “Gives final warning to seven more,” Belvidere (IL) Daily Republican, June 19, 1930. “Hunt killer as he looks for third victim,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 18, 1930. “Innocent man slain in robbery joke,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 11, 1930. McQueen, Kevin. New England Nightmares. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018. “Mad slayer keeps Gotham police agog; 2 more dead,” Dubois (PA) Courier-Express, June 20, 1930. “Madman sought as chief pirate in yacht attack,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 14, 1931. “Make new arrest in 3X case, then let prisoner go,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 10, 1930. Morrow, Jason. Famous Crimes the World Forgot. Tulsa, OK: Historical Crime Detective, 2015. “Murderer tells cops he will strike again,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 10, 1937. “Necker killer eludes metropolitan police,” Kane (PA) Republican, June 21, 1930. “New York police fear red circle killer will return,” Eau Claire (WI) Leader-Telegram, October 6, 1937. Newton, Michael. The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes. New York: Facts on File, 2009. “Police suspect radio maniac as 3X slayer,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 23, 1931. “Sister of mad killer's victim ignores threat,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 22, 1930. “Suspect is held in recent murders near New York,” Corsicana (TX) Daiy Sun, July 9, 1930. “Suspect named by girl as Whitestone killer,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 14, 1930. “Youth admits he may be red circle killer,” San Mateo (CA) Times, October 11, 1937.
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A church worker is slain in 1932 Philadelphia. A lengthy investigation ensues, and a notorious inmate is questioned and a dramatic jailbreak he took part in is described.
“$60,000 life insurance carried by Norman Bechtel, murdered man,” Lebanon Daily News, January 22, 1932. “4-year-old murder case claimed near solution,” Sayre Evening Times, July 27, 1936. Bechtel, Norman R. (d. 1932), https://mla.bethelks.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Bechtel,_Norman_R._(d._1932) “Bechtel slain in shake-down, police believe,” Reading Times, April 16, 1937. “Bechtel slayer given ten years,” Pottstown Mercury, August 27, 1937. Boyd's Blue Book of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: C.E. Howe, 1906. “Convict freed as 'reformed' held as bandit,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19, 1933. “Cult sacrifice clues sought in Bechtel murder,” Reading Times, January 22, 1932. “Detective victim of suspected slayer,” Tyrone Daily Herald, December 8, 1932. “Four of convicts believed at sea,” Altoona Tribune, July 17, 1923. “Gang sails,” Reading Times, July 17, 1923. “Hold negro as suspect in detective's murder,” Franklin News-Herald, December 10, 1932. “Judge gives bail for anti-Fascist,” Scranton Republican, December 19, 1931. “Judge posts youth's bail,” Mount Carmel Item, December 18, 1931. “Kidnapped autoist tells story of bandits' escape,” Reading Times, July 16, 1923. “No hexers involved in Bechtel case,” Shamokin Dispatch, January 22, 1932. “Man found stabbed to death in Philadelphia,” Cumberland (MD) Evening Times, January 20, 1932. “Murdered man loved to play game of poker,” Bradford Daily Record, January 23, 1932. “Phila. sleuth's slayer caught,” Reading Times, December 12, 1932. “Philadelphia mayor fires safety chief,” Scranton Republican, February 25, 1933. “Police quiz suspect in Bechtel slaying,” Reading Eagle, July 28, 1936. “Police seek 3X link in murder of churchman,” Marshall (TX) News-Messenger, February 5, 1932. “Police still far from solving hex murder,” Franklin News-Herald, January 22, 1932. “Police think old homicide case solved,” Utica (NY) Observer, April 16, 1937. “Quiz convict in slaying of church worker,” Pottstown Mercury, July 27, 1936. “Quiz Lew Edwards, ex-Berks convict, in Bechtel murder,” Reading Times, July 30, 1936. “Rev. D.J. Unruh accepts pastorate at Lansdale, Pa.,” Mennonite Weekly Review (Newton, KS), December 11, 1929. “Seek foreigner in the baffling Bechtel crime,” Bristol Daily Courier, January 22, 1932. “Seek suspect in Croskey case,” Altoona Tribune, December 9, 1932. “Slaying of N. Bechtel believed hex murder,” Lebanon Daily News, January 22, 1932. “Stabbing of Mennonite believed another of state's hex murders,” Franklin News-Herald, January 21, 1932. “This way breeds Communism,” Reading Times, November 28, 1931. “Woman killed Bechtel, Phila. police believe,” Reading Times, January 26, 1932.
Opening music by Fesilyan Studios, https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Closing music by Soma. Statement of Eleanor Temple read by Mindi Gable.
Extra-long Halloween episode. A club for people who tell ghost stories, Jesse James and the headless horseman, a faked poltergeist, a cursed saw-mill, a plague of heart attacks, and New Orleans voodoo by way of a beef tongue.
“A hoodoo saw-mill in Brown County,” Indianapolis News, August 13, 1902.
“Followed by a ghost,” Wood County (WI) Reporter, October 11, 1888.
“Remarkable imposture,” New York Times, February 28, 1874.
“Strange sickness,” Sacramento Record-Union, August 1, 1894.
“The ghost club,” Sacramento Record-Union, October 31, 1891.
“Tombs' hoodoos,” Topeka Daily Herald, August 12, 1905.
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1932, Lansdale, Pennsylvania. An Italian night watchman at an iron foundry is found, beaten and his body hung in a locker room. Soon, an implication of cult vengeance soon gives way to a murder with a more commonplace motivation.
“Believe woman may be implicated in mystery death,” Harrisburg Sunday Courier, February 21, 1932.
“Cult murder now blamed on jealousy,” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, February 24, 1932.
“Father of 10 kiddies hanged by unknown men,” Gettysburg Times, February 19, 1932.
“Fears slaying by cult,” Bristol Daily Courier, February 25, 1932.
“Forti slain to save his soul, police think,” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, February 20, 1932.
“Hang body in locker of foundry,” Wilkes-Barre Evening News, February 18, 1932.
“Man is slain while kneeling at his prayers,” Shamokin Daily News, February 22, 1932.
“Member of religious cult found murdered,” Canandaigua (NY) Daily Messenger, February 19, 1932.
“Mysteries of cult entered investigation,” Shamokin Daily News, February 19, 1932.
“Noose death stumps coroner,” Reading Times, February 26, 1932.
“Police report two motives in Forte slaying,” Shamokin Daily News, February 23, 1932.
“Secret religious cult blamed for watchman's murder,” Kane Republican, February 19, 1932.
“See cult slaying in hanging murder,” Reading Times, February 20, 1932.
“Seek motive in slaying of watchman,” Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, February 18, 1932.
“Suspect murder in Pennsylvania suicide case,” Bradford Evening Star and Daily Record, August 29, 1932.
“Watchman brutally killed in foundry,” Tyrone Daily Herald, February 18, 1932.
Who Hanged the Night Watchman? http://paoddities.blogspot.com/2018/08/who-hanged-night-watchman.html
“Wife bares love plot in slaying,” Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, February 23, 1932.
“Widow sees hex in noose murder,” Reading Times, February 23, 1932.
“Worker's hanging puzzle to board,” Scranton Republican, June 16, 1932.
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A grisly discovery made by man's best friend along the Susquehanna River near Airville, PA in 1948 leads police into a dizzying network of circumstantial clues and a case that may have links to a sex trafficking ring. Also: account of an 1887 "maybe murder" near Elizabethtown, PA.
“Abandoned car in Md. linked to York mystery,” Harrisburg Evening News, March 16, 1948.
“Airville folks keep investigators baffled finding new bones,” York Gazette and Daily, March 25, 1948.
“Arm mystery clue proves to be dud,” York Gazette and Daily, March 30, 1948.
“Bones in burned truck not those of human,” Pottsville Republican, March 17, 1948.
“Bones unmatched, probers declare,” York Gazette and Daily, March 27, 1948.
“Car held here in York killing,” Hagerstown (MD) Daily Mail, March 16, 1948.
“Coroner to cremate mystery bones,” York Gazette and Daily, April 3, 1948.
“County severed arm case still baffles police,” York Gazette and Daily, March 19, 1948.
“FBI arrests 47 in smash at vast white slave ring centering at Ironton, O.,” Cumberland (MD) News, November 24, 1947.
“Find woman's arm; seek body,” Gettysburg Times, March 15, 1948.
“G-Men arrest 14 persons for white slavery,” Cumberland (MD) Evening Times, December 2, 1947.
“Hearing recalls 1948 attempt to rob grocer,” Cumberland (MD) News, October 6, 1954.
“Man's body discovered along river by posse seeking dead woman,” York Gazette and Daily, March 15, 1948.
“New bones case confronts cops,” York Gazette and Daily, March 24, 1948.
“Newark man gets 5 years for A&P holdup attempt,” Cumberland (MD) News, February 20, 1948.
“Paul J. Sites borne to his final rest,” Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, March 17, 1948.
“Police puzzled by arm and body in York mysteries,” Harrisburg Evening News, March 15, 1948.
“Police seek new clues in York bone mysteries,” Harrisburg Evening News, March 25, 1948.
“Police seek two for questioning in arm case,” York Gazette and Daily, March 17, 1948.
“Police seeking car in mystery of woman's arm,” York Gazette and Daily, March 16, 1948.
“Police seeking woman's body,” Harrisburg Telegraph, March 15, 1948.
“Seek further light on dismembered arm,” New Castle News, March 16, 1948.
“Seek remains of woman; dog retrieves arm,” Delaware County Times, March 15, 1948.
“Sex of severed arm owner not yet established,” York Gazette and Daily, March 18, 1948.
“Valley man's body found in river at York,” Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, March 15, 1948.
“White slavery arrests made on Bethel St.,” Hagerstown (MD) Morning Herald, December 2, 1947.
“Was he murdered?,” Lancaster Intelligencer, February 24, 1887.
The 1917 flap of lioness sightings around Monticello and Decatur, Illinois is examined. Also a brief rundown of other area mystery cats.
“Allerton's lion and dog fight until both die,” Chicago Tribune, July 21, 1917.
“Big tracks are found,” Decatur Herald, July 18, 1917.
“Camargo lion hunting proves popular job,” Mattoon Journal Gazette, June 25, 1917.
Coleman, Loren. Mysterious America, the Revised Edition. New York: Paraview Press, 2001.
“Cordon draws closer about lone lioness,” Lima (OH) Daily News, July 19, 1917.
“Couldn't locate famous lioness,” Decatur Daily Review, July 30, 1917.
“Decatur hounds at Monticello,” Decatur Daily Review, July 16, 1917.
“Decatur's lion mystery solved,” Decatur Daily Review, July 31, 1917.
“Hunters fail to capture lioness,” Marion (OH) Star, July 16, 1917.
“Lion at large near Ravinia scares autoists,” Chicago Tribune, July 15, 1917.
“Lion's trail network over central section,” Decatur Herald, July 19, 1917.
“Lion dodges 300 armed men,” Decatur Daily Review, July 16, 1917.
“Lion hunt in Champaign county,” Decatur Daily Review, June 6, 1917.
“Lion hunt planned for today on Allerton farm, Monticello,” Decatur Herald, July 15, 1917.
“Lion is still at large,” Bloomington Pantagraph, June 8, 1917.
“Lion stories dull stuff for reporter,” Decatur Herald, July 23, 1917.
“Lioness still safe in Piatt jungles,” Decatur Herald, July 17, 1917.
“Man attacked by lion at Decatur,” Rock Island Argus, July 14, 1917.
“Men search for lioness,” San Bernardino (CA) News, August 8, 1917.
“Monticello lion hunters have a fruitless search,” Mattoon Journal Gazette, july 16, 1917.
“More reports about the lion,” Decatur Daily Review, August 1, 1917.
“Nellie wanders from Decatur to Long Creek,” Decatur Herald, July 20, 1917.
“Posse goes after lion,” Mattoon Journal Gazette, August 1, 1917.
“Roosevelt asked to hunt lion,” Decatur Daily Review, July 17, 1917.
“Rumor lion is shot proves unfounded,” Decatur Herald, August 2, 1917.
“Says Allerton is regular fellow,” Decatur Daily Review, July 19, 1917.
“Section men see a lion,” Bloomington Pantagraph, July 20, 1917.
“Tuscola men fail to kill that lion,” Decatur Daily Review, June 20, 1917.
“Two automobile loads of men drove from Tuscola heavily armed,” Ford County Press, June 29, 1917.
A different kind of mud-slinging in the nation's capital - the bizarre story of George Taylor, AKA 1893-1894's Jack the Slasher, is recounted. Not a jar of molasses or goose-down pillow was safe. Also, the White House is visited by a "pestiferous crank."
“A nest of tramps,” Washington Evening Star, November 21, 1893.
“After the president,” Troy (AL) Messenger, November 29, 1893.
“Another slasher outrage,” Washington Evening Star, January 22, 1894.
“Astonishing vandalism,” Elwood (IN) Daily Press, December 2, 1893.
“Attempted burglary,” Washington Evening Star, March 8, 1894.
Boyd's Directory of the District of Columbia, 1897.
“Claiming insanity,” Washington Evening Times, April 10, 1894.
“Gathering proofs,” Washington Evening Star, March 21, 1894.
“Given thirty years,” Washington Evening Star, April 21, 1894.
“Guarding the White House,” San Francisco Examiner, November 19, 1893.
“Held for examination,” Washington Evening Star, January 23, 1894.
“Hid under a tree,” Washington Evening Star, March 24, 1894.
“Hunt silver thief,” Washington Post, February 13, 1911.
“Jack the cake slasher,” Alexandria (VA) Gazette, December 23, 1893.
“Jack the slasher,” Salt Lake City (UT) Herald, November 20, 1893.
“Jack the slasher,” Washington Times, March 23, 1894.
“Jack the slasher,” Washington Evening Star, April 9, 1893.
“'Jack the Slasher' terrorizes Washington,” https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2015/07/02/jack-slasher-terrorizes-washington
“Police confident,” Washington Evening Star, March 20, 1894.
“Probably the man,” Washington Evening Star, March 13, 1894.
“Reign of terror,” Washington Evening Star, November 20, 1893.
Segrave, Kerry. Police Violence in America, 1869-1920: 256 Incidents Involving Death or Injury. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2016.
“Slasher guilty,” Washington Evening Star, April 12, 1894.
“Still hunting him,” Washington Evening Star, November 17, 1893.
“Strange burglars,” Washington Evening Star, November 6, 1893.
“Surely the slasher,” Washington Evening Star, March 23, 1894.
“Terry not held,” Washington Evening Star, October 12, 1894.
“The Terry case,” Washington Evening Star, May 21, 1894.
“The slasher again,” Washington Evening Star, November 30, 1893.
“The slasher held,” Washington Evening Star, March 27, 1894.
“The two suspects,” Washington Evening Star, November 28, 1893.
“Twice told tales: the story of Jack the Slasher,” Washington Times, October 18, 1919.
“Washington's own terrifying 'Jack the Slasher' finally caught in 1894,” http://househistoryman.blogspot.com/2012/06/washingtons-own-terrifying-jack-slasher.html
“Will probably die,” Washington Evening Star, November 23, 1893.
A 1934 murder of a supposed witch in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania is recalled, as is a 1949 case of a supposed curse near Claysburg, Pennsylvania which reads like an episode of Supernatural.
“1934 valley hex murder charges dropped,” Shenandoah Evening Herald, March 10, 1976.
“Aged prophet of Bedford hills tells how faith heals,” Altoona Tribune, March 9, 1949.
“Aged woman of North Union Township victim of assassin's bullet,” Pottsville Republican, March 19, 1934.
“Another arson case in valley,” Shenandoah Evening Herald, December 1, 1976.
“Dead GI's body exhumed to break spell on widow,” Altoona Mirror, March 4, 1949.
“Hex house burns down,” Shenandoah Evening Herald, November 9, 1976.
“Hex killer insane, says Dr. W. Bowers,” Mount Carmel Item, March 26, 1934.
“Hex slayer sleeps well, believing he has broken spell,” Harrisburg Telegraph, March 23, 1934.
“Hex slayer to escape trial,” Danville Morning News, March 27, 1934.
“Hexed nine years, slayer of woman tells detectives,” Sayre Evening Times, March 23, 1934.
“Man re-enacts slaying woman who hexed him,” Lebanon Daily News, March 23, 1934.
“More under spell of woman killed by victim of hex,” Harrisburg Daily Courier, March 25, 1934.
“Mountain hex slayer may be sent to state hospital for insane,” Pottstown Mercury, March 26, 1934.
“Powder mill explodes,” Pottsville Republican, July 6, 1910.
“Recall murder near Nuremberg,” Hazleton Plain Speaker, November 30, 1943.
“Reuben was a good boy, mother says,” Altoona Tribune, March 8, 1949.
“Seek to free suspect in valley hex murder,” Shenandoah Evening Herald, March 21, 1969.
“Slayer of widow is contented in Pottsville jail,” New Castle News, March 23, 1934.
“Vet's body exhumed to chase hex,” Pottstown Mercury, March 7, 1949.
“Victim's life story checked,” Altoona Tribune, March 24, 1934.
“Will stand trial for '34 slaying,” Lebanon Daily News, January 10, 1976.
“Witch lore motive for killing,” Pottsville Republican, March 22, 1934.
Find a Grave: Albert Shinsky. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98667816/albert-shinsky
Find a Grave: Pvt. Reuben C. Rock. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119132235/reuben-c-rock/photo
Find a Grave: Susan Fuhrman Mummey. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62218671/susan-mummey
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The tale of Clara Coffin, a well-to-do Jersey girl who in 1903 vanished - and reappeared days later, halfway across the country, telling an unbelievable tale. Also: a man claims to have gotten married while in a hypnotic fog, another man claims to have stolen a woman's jewelry under the hypnotic command of a whiskey-drinking, gun-toting man, and a young girl claims to have cut her hair short and dressed like a boy while hypnotized.
“A sensation,” Arkansas City (KS) Daily Traveler, February 21, 1896.
“Cast spell over him,” Alton (IL) Evening Telegraph, November 27, 1900.
“Clara Coffin arrives home,” New York Sun, November 15, 1903.
“Clara Coffin's story doubted,” New York Evening World, November 7, 1903.
“Girl in boy's dress found at Coney,” New York Tribune, July 11, 1905.
“Girl tells queer story,” New York Times, November 7, 1903.
“Her eyes hypnotized,” Waterloo (IA) Courier, November 9, 1903.
“Hypnotic fog did for him,” Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1900.
“Hypnotism,” Owensboro (KY) Messenger-Inquirer, November 8, 1903.
“Is searching for a missing girl,” Richmond (IN) Item, November 6, 1903.
“Miss Coffin better,” New York Sun, November 8, 1903.
“Mother seeks missing girl,” New York Evening World, November 5, 1903.
“No trace of Miss Coffin,” New York Sun, November 6, 1903.
“Oil magnate's daughter lost,” New York Evening World, November 4, 1903.
“Other side is heard,” Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), October 28, 1897.
“Rev. C.O. Brown's startling story,” San Francisco Examiner, January 1, 1896.
“Said she traveled alone,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 8, 1903.
“She may be in California,” St. Louis Republic, November 6, 1903.
“Sticks to hypnotism story,” Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, November 10, 1903.
“Taken into court,” Anaconda (MT) Standard, December 31, 1895.
Bartholow, Roberts. “What is meant by nervous prostration?” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 110:3 (January 1884).
Cobb, Ivo Beikie. A Manual of Neurasthenia (Nervous Exhaustion). London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1920.
Gunn, Selskar M. Letter to Frederick Russell, January 15, 1921.
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The Blue Book for the Oranges, New Jersey. New York: Dau Publishing, 1908.
A profile of Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani and his followers, the Galleanists, who after his deportation engaged in a campaign of bombing and destruction across the country. Also the "Palmer Raids" of 1919-1920 and a few appearances of people who became of importance later.
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“Arrest Boston Bolshevist in Roxbury bomb outrage,” Boston Globe, June 4, 1919.
“Arrest of bomb plot heads to be made soon,” Muncie (IN) Evening Press, June 4, 1919.
“Believe Paterson bomb meant for Fitzgerald,” Boston Globe, June 4, 1919.
“Bomb for Mr. Smoot returned to Gimbel's,” Washington Evening Star, May 1, 1919.
“Bomb is sent to Senator Overman,” Washington Evening Star, May 1, 1919.
“Central Union and the Paterson riots,” New York Times, November 3, 1902.
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“Once helped publish Cronaca Sovversiva,” Barre (VT) Daily Times, May 5, 1920.
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“Plot to assassinate King Humbert and other monarchs was hatched in this city,” New York World, August 3, 1900.
“Police seek boy explosion spared,” Binghamton (NY) Press and Sun-Bulletin, July 6, 1904.
“Red at Niagara,” Buffalo Enquirer, September 17, 1920.
“Soldiers are sent to quell Paterson riots,” Buffalo Evening News, June 20, 1902.
“Sued for $5,000,” Montpelier (VT) Journal, December 29, 1910.
“Terrorists attack in Philadelphia, wrecking houses of judge, police head and prominent businessman by bombs,” Barre (VT) Daily Times, December 31, 1918.
“Trials of Tarrytown rioters are postponed,” Binghamton (NY) Press and Sun-Bulletin, July 6, 1904.
“U.S. hunts anarchists as May Day mail plot fails to gain victims,” Washington Evening Star, May 1, 1919.
“Work of anarchists of some other city,” Boston Globe, June 3, 1919.
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The story of Charles M. Hatfield, rainmaker of California, and the 1916 flood of San Diego with which he was - maybe - connected.
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“Cloud-compelling Jove has a bold competitor in Oregon,” Oregon Daily Journal, July 14, 1907.
“Destruction and death follow in wake of water,” San Bernardino County Sun, January 29, 1916.
“Dam breaks and angry flood assails Pomona,” Los Angeles Times, January 19, 1916.
“Droughts and famine needless, says 'rainmaker' Hatfield,” Bismarck (ND) Tribune, August 13, 1921.
“Fall in San Diego,” Los Angeles Times, January 16, 1916.
“Hatfield chasing elusive cloudlets,” Los Angeles Herald, October 4, 1908.
“Hatfield, good guesser, ranchers may feel assured there will be 12 inches or more of rain this season,” Oxnard Press-Courier, December 16, 1921.
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“Raining dollars into 'hat',” Vancouver Daily World, May 21, 1921.
“Rainmaker busy,” Los Angeles Times, December 13, 1904.
“Rainmaker may get $10,000 as result of floods in California,” Indianapolis News, February 10, 1916.
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“Rainmaker Hatfield in Italy in attempt to end long drought,” Bismarck (ND) Tribune, August 21, 1922.
“Rainstorms at $50 each, or your money back,” Boston Globe, March 2, 1904.
“San Bernardino county loss about a million,” Los Angeles Times, January 19, 1916.
“Six deaths and $2,000,000 loss; storm havoc in south,” Santa Ana Register, January 19, 1916.
“Steamer is embedded in silt at the harbor,” Los Angeles Times, January 19, 1916.
“Thinks he can coerce nature,” San Francisco Chronicle, Decmber 12, 1904.
“Trains by the score crawl out of floods,” Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1916.
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“With a grain of salt,” Redlands (CA) Daily Facts, April 16, 1958.
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A history of the Leopard Men, a murderous - sometimes - animistic cult in Central Africa. Also other similar African groups, the Crocodile Men, Baboon Society and Lion-Men or Mbojo are dealt with. Finally, we detour briefly to South America and take a quick look at the legends of werejaguars in the armies of an Argentine general.
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Ambrosetti, Juan. “The Legend of the Yaguarete-Aba; the Indian Tiger, and its Projections among the Guaranies, Quichuas, etc.” Annals of the Argentine Scientific Society 41 (1896).
Beatty, K.J. Human Leopards: An Account of the Trials of Human Leopards Before the Special Commission Court. London: Hugh Rees, 1915.
Fyle, Magbaily C. Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006.
Howard, Robert E. “Man-Eaters of Zamboula.” http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600791h.html
Miller, Ivor L. “Bongo Ita: Leopard Society Music and Language in West Africa, Western Cuba, and New York City.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 5:1 (January 2012). Retrieved from: http://people.bu.edu/imiller/pubs/Miller%202012.pdf
Miller, Ivor and Mathew Ojong. “Ekpe 'Leopard' Society in Africa and the Americas: Influence and Values of an Ancient Tradition.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 36:2 (2013). Retrieved from: http://www.afrocubaweb.com/ivormiller/Miller-Ojong2012-s.pdf
Pratten, David. The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
“The Influence of Islam on African Native Law – II.” In The Moslem World, Vol. 11 (S.M. Zwemer, ed.). Harrisburg, PA: Missionary Review, 1921.
Van Bockhaven, Vicky. “Leopard-men of the Congo in Literature and Popular Imagination.” Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 46:1 (January 2009). Retrieved from: http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0041-476X2009000100006
In this episode, we'll hear the story of an Irish ghost? poltergeist? demon? that appeared as a large talking black cat. Also, some history of the Hellfire Clubs, and a 1566 English witch trial in which a cat turned toad turned dog named Satan figured.
Sources
Philips, John. An Examination and Confession of Certain Witches at Chelmsford in the County of Essex, before the Queen Majesty's Judges, the 26th day of July Anno 1566. London: 1566.
Fennel, Paul. Haunted: A Guide to Paranormal Ireland. Dublin: Poolbeg, 2006.
Joyce, P.W. Origin and History of Irish Names of Places. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1875.
St. John Joyce, Weston. The Neighbourhood of Dublin, its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1921.
The Demonic Cat at Killakee House. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC68HCE_the-demonic-cat-at-killakee-house?guid=3ca11f2d-b7ad-41ec-afee-f12ee719f345
In this episode, we'll hear the story of a violent offender in Philadelphia and Baltimore that carried a foot fetish to the next level. Also, we'll hear about a Springheel Jack and Jersey Devil sighting that may be connected to each other and to the offender.
Sources
“Brutal attack upon young girl,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 7, 1905.
“Excited over slasher,” Baltimore Sun, February 5, 1905.
“Is he the shoe slasher?,” Baltimore Sun, February 6, 1905.
“Jack the foot slasher,” Washington Post, February 16, 1905.
“Jack the shoe slasher,” Harrisburg (PA) Daily Independent, January 19, 1905.
“Jack the slasher again,” Washington Post, March 13, 1906.
“Jack the slasher has moved uptown,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 23, 1905.
“Know Karolis as Burt,” Baltimore Sun, February 9, 1905.
“Mrs. Kirschner's assailant?” Baltimore Sun, February 2, 1905.
“Not the shoe slasher,” Baltimore Sun, February 22, 1905.
“Says devil forced him,” Baltimore Sun, March 24, 1909.
“Shoe slasher,” Montpelier (VT) Evening Argus, January 21, 1905.
“Shoe slasher again?,” Baltimore Sun, February 24, 1905.
“Shoe slasher is here,” Baltimore Sun, February 4, 1905.
“Shoe slasher busy in blizzard,” Wilmington (DE) Morning News, January 26, 1905.
“Slasher at it again,” Baltimore Sun, February 10, 1905.
“Think him the slasher,” Baltimore Sun, February 20, 1905.
“Was not the slasher,” Baltimore Sun, February 17, 1905.
“Wielded knife on the skirts of five women,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 1905.
Bondeson, Jan. The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Oordt, Darcy. Haunted Philadelphia: Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 2015.
Paijmans, Theo. “Philadelphia's 'Jack the Slasher' Case.” Fortean Times 279 (September 2011).
In this episode, we examine the supposed sighting of a gigantic shark in the waters off Annapolis, Maryland, some real shark encounters, visit the Calvert Cliffs, and hear of a strange religious vision the pastor who wrote the account of the monster shark had had previously.
Sources
“10-foot shark in West River,” Baltimore Sun, August 19, 1918.
“A pest of sharks,” Baltimore Sun, August 31, 1895.
“Another appears off Annapolis,” Baltimore Sun, July 20, 1916.
“Capture of a shark,” Baltimore Sun, August 19, 1895.
“Man-eater near Easton,” Baltimore Sun, July 20, 1916.
“Man-eating sharks invade Severn,” Baltimore Sun, August 13, 1920.
“Mr. Smiley hears an angel at Annapolis singing 'peace on earth,' and awakes to find it all a dream,” Baltimore Sun, June 7, 1921.
“Precaution against sharks,” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 14, 1910.
“Sharks after rock fish,” Baltimore Sun, August 15, 1898.
“Sharks in the Chesapeake,” Baltimore Sun, July 16, 1916.
“Sharks in the Patapsco,” Baltimore Sun, August 15, 1904.
“Submarines at Annapolis,” Baltimore Sun, March 21, 1907.
“The prey of sharks' hunger,” Richmond Times, June 13, 1891.
“Two sharks captured,” Baltimore Sun, August 7, 1903.
“Was it a shark?” Baltimore Sun, August 10, 1895.
A-7 (Submarine Torpedo Boat #8). https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/a-7.html
Anti-Vivisection Society of Maryland. Dawn: Denouncing the Pollution, and Advocating the Entire Suppression of Vivisection. Baltimore: Anti-Vivisection Society of Maryland, Incorporated, 1901-1908.
Hadwen, Walter R. “Claim Everything.” Journal of Zoöphily 23:11 (November 1914).
McLennan, Jeanne D. Miocene Sharks' Teeth of Calvert County. Maryland Geological Survey, 1971.
Mellin, John. “Anne Arundel vignettes: mysterious authors II,” Annapolis Capital, March 19, 1987.
In the first episode of the Forgotten Darkness podcast, we examine the brutal murder - or was it? - of David Shearer in 1915 Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and also hear a bizarre tale of a new type of phantom limb pain.
Sources
"Eyes cut out in brutal tragedy," Wilkes-Barre Evening News, June 12, 1915.
Find a Grave: David Miles Shearer. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37990945/david-miles-shearer
"In other counties," Altoona Tribune, June 16, 1915.
"Man found dead a case of murder and not suicide," Lock Haven Express, June 11, 1915.
"Probing murder," New Castle Herald, June 12, 1915.
"Tale of a severed arm," Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2, 1896.